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

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:01:59AM +0200, JP Dinger wrote:
> 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.

<shrug> Your own silly fault for buying the wrong
hardware. Reverse-engineer it if you really care.

> > > > 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.

Go read the code for yourself.

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