[GEM-dev] 'official' support?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Jan 10 19:49:44 CET 2007


Hallo,
IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> however, it hasa lot to do, with drivers claiming to support special
> features which in fact they don't support (most problems have been with
>  rectangle-textures not working correctly).
> 
> ideally the list of "known good" hardware would hold intel hardware too.

One thing that comes to my mind in this regard would be a kind of easy
to use test suite to find out where some cards fail or behave
strangely. At best it would be automated, but even a collection of
specific patches would be a good start.

> > I'm willing to help getting Gem work properly on the chips I own by
> > testing (which I already do) and also other things that are in reach
> > of my abilities. Just tell me what's needed.
> 
> the simplest thing would be to give me one of your intel gfx cards ;-)

Well, it's "hardcoded" into my laptop. But I can send you a Matrox
G450, if you like? I'll order it directly on Ebay for 10 Euro. ;)

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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