Re: [Dri-devel] [Announce] DRI-Devel-FAQ & binary snapshotsavailable from DRI

[Keith W. <ke...@tu...>]

Jose Fonseca wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:58, Martin Spott wrote:
> > > The DRI developer's FAQ and the driver binary snapshots are now
> > > available from the DRI website, respectively at:
> > [...]
> >
> > You might put a note that these driver binaries are _not_ the ones that are
> > compatible to usual distribution released libGL and libGLU. These are
> > available from Jens Owen only.
> >
> 
> Although the drivers alone aren't compatible with the libGL of a usual
> distribution, the whole packages ARE. People have been using them fine
> quite some time now. This is because they include the libGL.
> 
> Thanx to Alan's install.sh script, both in the drivers that I and Jens
> provide people can restore their system to the previous state just by
> typing 'install.sh restore'. The only problem is when libGL stops being
> included, as I said before, but that will take its time, so I don't see
> the point in creating confusion in people minds when there is no need.
> 
> > The new drivers posted by Jose are incredibly fast, but I still see strange
> > colours in FlightGear even when I disable TCL - I believe I do. But I might
> > have misunderstood something. I have the following on my shell:
> >
> > quickstep: 20:54:11 ~> env | grep RADEON
> > RADEON_NO_VTXFMT=1
> > RADEON_NO_TCL=1
> >
> >
> > .... but the picture (and frame rate) are identical to the ones without
> > this environment. Anything broken on my end ?
> >
> 
> The drivers released are exactly those from the trunk. I'm not sure
> what's the state of TCL support on the trunk, but I think is rather
> limited. That work has been done on the tcl-0-0-branch. Keith should
> enlighten this matter though.

There's no tcl on the trunk.  That's the Mesa-4.0 version of the driver, so is
different to (and probably lots faster than) anything that's been distributed
elsewhere, but it doesn't yet do any tcl.

Keith