Re: linux 3d applications keep crashing

On Sat, March 14, 2009 17:34, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:55 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>> On Sat, March 14, 2009 14:45, Roman Divacky wrote:
>> >> > there's an ongoing work on nouveau, so stay tuned :)
>> >> >
>> >> Yes, that will take many years to complete, or at least, produce a
>> >> rotating cube or maybe, maybe run glxgears in around 2012.
>> >
>> > I am currently running accelerated glgears on freebsd using nouveau.
>> > thnx for your enthusiasm :)
>
> Unfortunately, the 3d is direct "software rendering" right now, but I do
> have drm enabled hardware accelerated 2d and Xv working now.  Linux
> doesn't have hardware accelerated 3d right now either, so...
>
>> woowWWW
>>
>> that's hell-I-don't-know-how-to-express-this good !!!!
>>
>> where to get latest code ?
>
> I'm planning to start putting together patches for -CURRENT next week.
> The userland components you generally need to get from git.  We do now
> have a port of the nouveau driver based on a git snapshot, but the
> driver has yet to be released and I've got at least one change to libdrm
> that is needed against git master to make things work on amd64.
>
> I haven't tried NV50 series cards yet... I've done most of the porting
> on an NV40 and Roman has has an NV44.  I need to plug the 8800 back in
> and see how it goes.

I have both 7950GT and 8500GT. I'll try the latter first throughout this
week.

matheus

> robert.
>
>> thanks !!!
>>
>> matheus
>
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> Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
> FreeBSD
>


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