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Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...



On August 28, 2001 02:16 am, William Leese wrote:

> >
> > Nowhere at XFree86 web site is explicitely said that there is
> > no DRI support
> > or render extension for Mach64 based video cards, but
> > apparently they are not
> > supported. It seems that nobody is willing to make a driver
> > for these cards,
> > so we can either try to do it ourselves, or just live without
> > those goodies
> >
> > :-(. Oh, yes, we can also ask ATI to release Linux drivers
> >
> > for Mach64 cards.
> >
> > Slaven
>
> Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine with an
> Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the RENDER extension.
> Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to be support for it
> (atleast, i never got it work), but now RENDER simply works.
>
> Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only
> the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather
> have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an
> ugly one that is antialiased.

Which driver do you use? Rage 128?

Slaven



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