As it stands, attempting to use the i915 DRI driver on non-i386 hardware (such as my EM64T system or perhaps certain ia64 systems) produces a flood of debugging output on standard error, making the driver relatively useless for practical purposes. The patch below, stolen from Mesa's trunk, disables this output; I'd greatly appreciate it if it could make its way into Debian's official packages.
(Other than that, the driver seems to work fine, and to give a visible performance boost over the unaccelerated 3D I had with XFree86, though I haven't had time to test it too extensively yet.) For the record, the associated upstream log message was Disable leftover debug statements Thanks. http://cvs.freedesktop.org/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/intel_tris.c?r1=text&tr1=1.5&r2=text&tr2=1.6&makepatch=1&diff_format=u =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/intel_tris.c,v rcsdiff: /cvs/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/intel_tris.c,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.5 retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 --- intel_tris.c 2005/05/09 17:59:13 1.5 +++ intel_tris.c 2005/05/17 22:21:08 1.6 @@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ #else #define COPY_DWORDS( j, vb, vertsize, v ) \ do { \ - if (1) fprintf(stderr, "\n"); \ + if (0) fprintf(stderr, "\n"); \ for ( j = 0 ; j < vertsize ; j++ ) { \ - if (1) fprintf(stderr, " -- v(%d): %x/%f\n",j, \ + if (0) fprintf(stderr, " -- v(%d): %x/%f\n",j, \ ((GLuint *)v)[j], \ ((GLfloat *)v)[j]); \ vb[j] = ((GLuint *)v)[j]; \ -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
