Re: [Mesa3d-users] mach64 kernel modules for 2.6.29 WORKS but...

[José J. <lis...@fr...>]

A Thursday 23 April 2009 00:48:40, Chris Jones escreveu:
> Two examples of 3D with a Mach64 that make it worth enabling dri:
>
>   . Heretic II - if dri is enabled + 16-bit color + 1024x768 at most the
>     rendering is quite beautiful. If not, you are switched to the software
>     renderer and the game is ugly as sin.
>
>   . tuxracer - without dri, it takes maybe ten seconds before you switch
>     from the menu to an actual game sequence - which turns out to be so
>     slow that it is unplayable anyway.
>

Ok maybe Heretic (I didn't test). But tuxracer has been replaced by 
extremetuxracer or ppracer, which both ask for a better graphics card.

Of course, if you want a distribution that just works with Mach64 dri, I'd 
recommend you a Mandriva 2007 Spring, it was the last one I used with a 
Mach64 and DRI (and at his time I filled bug reports to Mandriva each time 
DRI was forgotten for Mach64). If you just want those old games, I think they 
will run better with such an old distribution.

> Another reason I was looking into this was indeed because I was
> wondering whether it would make any difference playing movies or
> streaming TV with mplayer+xv - not to mention watching Adobe Flash
> content in mozilla with the flashplayer plugin.

Here DRI will not change anything : xv and flash DON'T use DRI.