Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:40:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> To: ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp Cc: osa@etrust.ru, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: riva-glx (3d hardware acceleration) port Message-ID: <199907140740.JAA00534@oranje.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199907140258.LAA07131@atohasi.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> (ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp) References: <199907140258.LAA07131@atohasi.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
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> In our site, riva-glx ports work fine on RIVA128(RAM 4MB), RIVA128(RAM
> 8MB) and RIVA128TNT(RAM 16MB).
>
> I could build xtt-SVGA-1.2.1 with 3D support. It is very nice.
I am glad to hear this! Thanks again to Jordan for his excellent article.
Some additional points:
1. The new server has some additonal 2D accelerations too!
From the riva-x-glx.faq document:
Q. What are the differences in the 2D portion of the X server from the
3.3.3.1 version?
A. More 2D acceleration has been added. Specifically stippled pattern
fills; the logout screen in KDE was driving me crazy! The glyph
rendering routines have all been hooked and accelerated at a high level.
Some bugs in the video clock routines have been fixed (some people
mentioned mode switches hanging - hopefully fixed). The X server now
recognizes all TNT and TNT2 variants.
2. It looks like it has one 2d visual bug. I use Emacs 20.3.1 from the ports
collection and here the screen update leaves part of the screen
uncleaned - a horizontal line remains. (Just use the typical 2 tiled
Emacs screen and then C-x 1 one window to full size, watch part of the
separation middle bar to remain on the screen - C-l to refresh)
I saw something different when browsing through my Netscape navigator
bookmarks. Again a horizontal line remained.
3. The present port is not perfect yet:
- It does not check if the XFree86 and Mesa stuff has been removed from
the system
- it is likely not to clean everything it put on the system
- it should have some additional words of guidance, as the 3d acceleration
works under specific settings only. Please read riva-x-glx.faq!
- package building has not tested at all
I will try to improve this during the next two weeks.
At least it should clean properly at the time XFree86 4 arrives and we
want to get rid of this stuff. :)
Regards,
Marc
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