Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Doom3 works on R200!

[Adam J. <aj...@nw...>]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 14:16, Nicolai Haehnle wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 19:38, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > Even though I just have a Radeon 9200, I'm very excited about the
> > ongoning R300 effort and with there was a similar project for NVidia
> > cards too.
>
> If that "with" above is a "wish" like I think it probably is, you might
> want to have a look at Utah-GLX which has rudimentary hw accel support.
> Also, somebody, somewhere (possibly in the nv driver in X, but I'm not
> sure) figured out how to do DMA.

You're probably thinking of the rivatv project, also on sourceforge.  I'd b=
e=20
surprised if the open nv driver did DMA.

> Of course, what's really needed is the equivalent of glxtest for NVidia a=
nd
> somebody with NVidia hardware who has a few weeks to spare for long nights
> of puzzling over register dumps :)

The utah driver isn't totally impenetrable.  While the register values are =
all=20
given as magic numbers, the function names are readable at least.

Also, as the closed nvidia driver does not use the DRM, glxtest would be of=
 no=20
use.

=2D ajax

> cu,
> Nicolai