Re: Phil meet y-devel; y-devel meet Phil

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:14:20PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > XFree86/X.Org driver stealing.
> > 
> > So I can use native Y without wasting my GeForce FX.
> 
> Their drivers suck. You will regret this. You have been warned.
> 
> Frankly I'd rather get hold of the hardware documentation and do it
> from scratch.

That'd be cool. Now, where'd that stack of sooper seekrit hardware
documentation go. I had it here just a minute ago. I wasn't allowed
to read it, NDAs all over, but what the hey.


> > > GL support.
> > 
> > Shouldn't be too hard to rig up a pass-through for the SDL hosted versions.
> > Doing it native will be trickier unless we've managed to nick X drivers.
> 
> Excuse me while I vomit. All the existing free GL implementations are
> vile devilspawn. They're even worse than xfree86 drivers.

Please do clean up when you're done. I'm not so much interested in your
sentiment as in knowing why you feel that way. That, you are more than
welcome to share and explain. Do enlighten us.


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