Bug#215831: SIGILL in glx for G400

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

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.

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.

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greg