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[ILUG] TNT and software GLX rendering

[ILUG] TNT and software GLX rendering

John P. Looney jplooney-ilug at online.ie
Sat Mar 4 14:39:50 GMT 2000


On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 10:30:26AM +0000, Donncha O Caoimh mentioned:
> Found this nice snippet at
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/pipermail/utah-glx-users/2000-March/000361.html
> 
> "Oh, you've got the same problem I had a few days ago, sorry I forgot to
> precise: the new TNT glx module works only with XFree 3.3.6. Using 3.3.5
> you only get software rendering. (I did this mistake too...) (you can
> verify this by reading the X output, it says "### Creating new xmesa
> contex for Riva...", or "### Creating new xmesa context for sw" when you
> allocate a new GL context, with xf-3.3.5 it's only sw).
> I upgraded and it works again for me (with the same 20000228 module and
> SuSE 6.1 using a TNT2)."

 Oh right. Ah well, I'm on 3.9.18, and 2D performance is too good for me
to go back. I suppose I'll just wait till there is a 3.9.18 glx module for
TNTs.

Kate

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