ATI mach64 core consultant work needed

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 15 October 2004 23:50, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:53:58AM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
>>> We have the register docs for the M1 and the BIOS source code and
>>> we have permission from ATI to release any source code generated
>>> from these sources under GPL whatever so any work done can go
>>> directly back into the X tree.
>>
>> For what it's worth, the current ATI driver (and the rest of the X
>> tree) is either under a three-clause BSD licence (i.e. sans
>> advertising clause), or the MIT/X11 licence; both are significantly
>> more permissive than the GPL.
>
> That sounds like pretty good news Daniel.  Is all this in the current
> 6.8.1 release?  Now if I could just figure out why I can't get more
> than 190fps out of an X-tacy branded r200 (9200 SE 128 megs) board.
> But most of my posts have apparently fallen thru a crack someplace.
> I saw one post a couple of weeks back claiming nearly 2000fps on a
> slightly slower box than this 2800 Xp athlon.   We need a
> menu/checklist of all the stuff to check when things get mired in
> time.  Or is there one someplace I've not been pointed at yet?

If you are trying to debug DRI take a look at

    http://gatos.sf.net/dri-debug.php

It was written a while ago but most of things mentioned on this page still 
apply. The biggest difference is that a few of the issues have been fixed 
and cannot occur without an informative (at least for me) error message.

                      best

                        Vladimir Dergachev

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