ATI mach64 core consultant work needed

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 01:33 -0400, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 17 October 2004 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      1. Try to turn off direct rendering (for example by deleting
>>>> the necessary /dev/dri/card0 device) and check the FPS count using
>>>> software only rendering - is it different ?
>>>
>>> No, it regenerated the /dev/dri/card0 device by running glxgears.
>>
>> Try deleting it and become a user so it cannot recreate it. With the
>> obvious goal of forcing it to do software rendering.
>
> Just set LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 ...

Ahhh.. The power of knowledge :) The crude ways have their use too though 
- Gene reported that deleting /dev/dri/card0 and running glxgears as a 
user that cannot create it causes a segfault, so perhaps there is a 
minor bug someplace in the code.

                        best

                           Vladimir Dergachev

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