On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:48 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:54:07PM -0500, Michel DÃnzer wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:21 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > All the 3d stuff available in debian works well (well, they play hell > > > with mergedfb dual-head mode, quake2 transformed my dual-head setup > > > into cloned mode, dissapearing without recourse all my windows on the > > > other head). > > > > If you have page flipping enabled, that's a known bug for which a > > solution is currently being discussed on the DRI lists. > > Ah ... Wonder if you will do a new dri-trunk release once that fix is > implemented,
I'm afraid that's rather unlikely. > or if we will have to wait for X.org server ? Or you could try John Lightsey's DRI packages: http://www.nixnuts.net/files/experimental/ > Also is it true that disabling page flopping also allows for >2x1024 > mergedfb resolution ? No, that's an orthogonal issue. Incidentally, a solution to overcome this limitation has been discussed for a while as well... > > > And AGP is probably not really so much of a benefit anyway in these > > > ages of multi-hundred MB of onboard ram. > > > > The free DRI drivers only use video RAM for textures, all the geometry > > etc. still goes over the bus, so PCI is definitely a bottle neck. > > Yep, understood, sadly there is not much we can do about that, since even > moving the geometry and stuff onto the video RAM will not help, since we have > to tranfer it at runtime, and cannot really pre-load it, right ? It depends, at least stuff like display lists could be cached. > Next version should have PCI-E 16x directly from the chip-builtin northbridge, > so that will be a huge gain over even stuff like the amd64 which only buildin > the memory controller. Then the pegasos becomes a real gaming plateform, if > there are specs or drivers available for modern graphic cards that is. Sounds good. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
