[ltp] Quake3 on a i1460

[George Staikos]

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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, tugrul@galatali.com wrote:
> I've gotten basic 3d going on the i1460. All the xscreensavers run 
> really fast in a window, and choppy full screen, but I guess 1024x768x16bit is
> a lot to ask for from glx at this point. But now I want to get GL working for
> what it is really useful for, Quake :)
> 	At this point I haven't tried glquake 1 since I don't have libc6
> binaries... I think I'll try building them from the gpled source sometime
> soon. But Quake3 is going to need some work. In a window it runs moderately
> slow and garbled... I have hope for the driver to improve as a bunch of other
> people badger the utag-glx people to fix things. The question I pose to this
> group is how the hell do you start X in a mode other then 1024x768? Whenever
> I switch Quake3 to 640x480 full screen (for hopefully better perf), the laptop
> just locks up. I first thought it was a glx problem, but then I tried starting
> the patched accelerated Mach64 server into 640x480... same problem...
> 
> 	Any suggestions?

  The ATI utah-glx code is very unstable right now from my experience.  I get
lockups and crashes like there's no tomorrow.  it's no-where near production
quality yet (unlike the G400 driver which is pretty nice :)). Even when it's
done you won't get top notch performance like you do on the Matrox and NVidia
cards, although it should still be usable.

I don't remember if I have tested the patched X server in 640x480 mode yet. 
I tried 1024x768 and I *THINK* 800x600 too.  CTRL-ALT-+ and CTRL-ALT-- let
you switch modes on the fly if you have them defined in the XF86Config file.

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George Staikos 


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