From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <398E61C2.BF0ED1ED@student.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:14:10 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kostas Gewrgiou CC: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Kind of success! (r128 on PPC (Re: LinuxPPC X Server)) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > The remaining problems are: > > > > 16 bit doesn't work neither with fbdev (colors completely off - does > > aty128fb still use 15 bit in fact?) nor without (at least the grey tones > > are right there - wrong endianness?) > > Yes aty128fb still doesn't support 16 bit, you could run the r128 driver > without fbdev to get 16 bits, but the code to switch the framebuffer to do > byteswapping is missing so the colors will be wrong Yep, that's the second thing I was referring to. > (easy to add though). Where and how? > > About performance: It's much better than software rendering (at least for > > big windows) of course, however not too fast with lots of polygons. AGP > > GART would definitely be a good thing I guess (Ben: hint, hint :) > > Do you have any numbers from gears, glquake etc ?? The numbers are very varying and not too high yet. AGP GART should change that. Michel -- Tax the rich. ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/