From: Allan Schaffer (allan++at++sgi.com)
Date: 03/30/2000 10:24:45
On Mar 29, 8:33pm, Joseph Spann wrote:
> It's been a month since this came up last and I see that XFree86 4.0 came
> out last week. Has anyone tried it out yet?
>
> "03/24/00 XFree86 4.0 is the first official release of the new XFree86 4.
> XFree86 4 represents a significant redesign of the XFree86 X server. It
> integrates OpenGL (Mesa), the open source GLX extenstion form SGI, and the
> Direct Rendering Infrastructure, to provide OpenGL hardware acceleration
> under most UNIXs."
I made my first serious venture into the wild world of XFree86 4.0
this week on my 'beige-box' test system and set back my development
schedule by a good 48 hours as a result ;-) .. I think Tom has been
following it for a while now and has had considerably more success.
But seriously,
We've had several reports on mongoose-feedback that nvidia cards
(TNT, GeForce, etc) under XFree4.0 have trouble with Performer apps
during the texture download phase. There seem to be some GLX opcodes
related to texture objects that fail with 'Invalid request code'
errors. I'm inclined to say this is an nVidia driver bug but we're
looking into it. (Hence my ill-fated load of 4.0).
> We're very interested in support for a lot of _SGIX so we can do UAV demo
> type things. Did any of that make it in?
The nvidia driver shipping with XFree4.0 is just an update of their
previous public drivers; it's not related to the much-anticipated
SGI/nVidia OpenGL collaboration work. So if the 4.0 driver has any
new features or OpenGL extensions in it I'm not aware of them. In
some sense it's a placeholder of sorts until the SGI-nVidia drivers
come along.
Allan
-- Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com Silicon Graphics http://reality.sgi.com/allan
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