Linux with XFree86 4.x (pre) and DRI!!!

[Sebastien Barre]

At 14:08 26/11/99 +0100, Dieter Nützel wrote:

>System :
>  - i686 running Linux 2.2.14pre6
>  - Tcl/Tk 8.0.5
>  - Mesa (visual is truecolor/truecolor/16)
>
>Defaults :
>WARNING : $active_camera GetClippingRange was 2.44347 4.52015 , should
>be 0.348564 17.4282
>  - VTK : wrong, please report us your values...

>What does the above warning mean?

It means that I shall upload the VTK Sphere Benchmark very soon :) There
has been a change in the way clipping planes are computed (it is much
clever), affecting all releases after 2.4 official. Sadly, this may have
some severe impact on your results (depends on the way your card handle Z
buffer).

>Could that be fixed? 

Yes, I'll send you 2.1 today.

>The first technical demonstration implementation was done for 3DLabs
>GMX2000 and was shown on SIGGRAPH '99.

I'd be very interesting in knowing more about that, as I'm also using that
graphics cards.

Sincerely,

-- 
Sebastien BARRE
IRCOM-SIC, UMR-CNRS 6615 - Université de Poitiers 
Bât. SP2MI, Bvd 3 - Téléport 2, BP 179 F-86960 Futuroscope Cedex 
Tel. : +33 (0)5 49 49 65 95 / 65 83, Fax : +33 (0)5 49 49 65 70 
http://www-sic.univ-poitiers.fr/ 


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