Re: 3DFX - it works!!

["Dr. David Gilbert" <gilbertd treblig org>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Rich Payne wrote:

> Yup, that worked. It's fast as well, I'm impressed. Thanks for the help
> Dave.

Yeh it is quite a screamer. 
> I guess the moral of the story is get the source from the 3Dfx website,
> not the XFree86 site.

Yep; one thing I have noticed which worked with my Matrox card in the
XFree 3.9x code but doesn't with the 3DFX is the xgamma command.

Looking at the 3D code a bit I can see some intersting problems on the
horizon; the Glide code seems to have a threading library which wants a
definition of a 'fence post' - I'm presuming this is some form of
cache/write back/PCI buffer clear - hmm.

Dave

/------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Work:dg@px.uk.com +44-161-286-2000 Ex258|
| -------- G7FHJ --------|---------------------------------------- |
| Home: dave@treblig.org   http://www.treblig.clara.net            |
\------------------------------------------------------------------/