On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:46:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:06:54PM -0500, raseesink@hotpop.com wrote: > > The behaviour the patch (035_tdfx_disable_dri_on_16mb_with_highres.diff) > > prevented sounds a lot like bug #179660. > > Okay. > > > I did some strace back then on an old version of xfree86. The thread > > mentioned in the bug report which contains them is moved. It is now in: > > http://bzbb.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?t=105 > > Hm. That thread seems to be mostly about NVidia cards and AMD systems. > > Are you sure that's the right URL? > > If so, could you please summarize the information of relevance here? > > > Not sure if this helps, but it might solve / close 179660 as well. > [...] > > So what you're saying is, we should have closed bug #179660 when patch > #035 was added? Do I understand you correctly? > > > P.S. I have a tdfx card (monster Fusion) and can do tests. Mail me if > > needed. > > Cool. I've been wondering if a "LiveDangerously" option should be added > to the tdfx driver to enable people so switch this restriction on the > maximum resolution under DRI on and off. > > Then they could decide for themselves whether they can live with the > instability, or verify if it even still exists. ftp://people.redhat.com/alan/XFree86/Voodoo might be interesting, as well. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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