Bug#215831: SIGILL in glx for G400
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 18:54, Greg Stark wrote:
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 00:46, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > > When last we looked at this we were stuck until I could get an unstripped
> > > mga_dri.so and I have a hankering to be playing Quake so I wouldn't mind if I
> > > could get this going again.
> >
> > Have you tried setting either of the MESA_NO_SSE or MESA_NO_3DNOW
> > environment variables?
>
> MESA_NO_3DNOW=1 makes things work.
So the CPU detection code is broken, probably fixed in newer versions.
> Interestingly MESA_NO_SSE=1 MESA_NO_3DNOW=1 glxgears produces pretty much the
> same framerates as just MESA_NO_3DNOW, which leads me to wonder if it's
> failing to use SSE and could possibly run faster.
You can try setting MESA_FORCE_SSE.
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