Re: status

[Aapo T. <ae...@ra...>]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:28:17 -0500
Adam K Kirchhoff <ad...@vo...> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 19:01, Aapo Tahkola wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:29:05 +0100
> >
> > khaqq <kh...@fr...> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:51:17 +0100
> > >
> > > Kristoffer <kf...@on...> wrote:
> > > > I'm thinking of trying the radeon driver again, but i'm wondering
> > > > wether or not it will ever catch up with the fglrx driver on speed?
> > > > what's the status of this, or goal? and what's the status on 9800 pro
> > > > dual monitor support with 3d?
> > > >
> > > > thanks for all your hard work anyway.
> > >
> > > my guess is that you're going to get either silence from the list, or a
> > > "answer to your own question by doing benchmarks"-type response.
> > >
> > > the only thing I can say is that fglrx is better than dri on some aspects
> > > of GL, unfortunatly this is what is used in UT2K3 / UT2K4 for example.
> > > there are plans to fix this, as time allows.
> >
> > The ut2k4 problem(s) have been in a semi-fixed state for a while now.
> > Bits and bolts dealing with it arent just enabled by default because quite
> > a few changes are needed to get it fully transparent.
> >
> > Couple shots:
> > http://www.rasterburn.org/~aet/ut2k4_tweaked.png
> > http://www.rasterburn.org/~aet/ut2k4_vanilla.png
> 
> 
> Do these fixes remove the need to disable s3tc to avoid the flickering tiling 
> problem?

These changes are already in cvs with exception of fb vbos(pretty useless anyways) and the drm scratch patch.

s3tc problem is still there im afraid.
Im using patches off #5353 to get around the texture swapping problem...

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Aapo Tahkola