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

On 2004-07-19 08:30:39 +0800 Andrew Suffield <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 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.
> 

Nvidia will eventually release the docs dont worry. I will in the 
meantime focus on those with docs available. Why waste time reverse 
engineering.

>>> > > 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.
>> 

Why bother with all that stuff. Focus on GL.

>> 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.
> 

Yes. Oh and enlighten others too. Hehe. Im was confused myself but 
with someone elses help i was able to find my way around. Next time 
the other guy had a problem i helped  him out. Off list of course.