Re: [Dri-devel] hardware transform and lighting

[Nathan H. <na...@ma...>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:14:31PM -0600, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> My reading of documentation available on the Web suggests that currently
> there is no DRI card driver that takes advantage of hardware transform and
> lighting for any card that provides such a service.  At least the Oxygen
> and the Radeon (not to mention the GeForce) provide hardware support for
> coordinate transforms, and there will surely be more (3Dfx?) that do in the
> near future.  Unfortunately, it seems as though one's only ability to take
> advantage of hardware geometry acceleration is limited to using NVidia's
> non-DRI offering along with the GeForce.

This is correct. No T&L yet.

> Is support for hardware geometry in the context of the DRI so far away
> (more than six months or so) that there is no sense in selecting a card now
> in the hope of helping to test it or even actually to use it? 

T&L is on the way. I can't discuss timeframes (only Daryll can).

> Is this problem one of the reasons for which NVidia decided not to provide
> DRI drivers, or was that a completely unrelated decision?

You'd have to ask nvidia.