On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Luke A. Guest wrote: >I have rh7.2 with a Voodoo3 2000 PCI card, but when I run any 3D programs, I >get random triangles all over the place. It is possible to work with, but a >little annoying when these spikes are drawn - it makes the display look >flickery. > >I never get any response on USENET, so I thought I'd try here. > >Anyone have any idea as to what it is seeing as X/GL has worked fine under >previous versions? There are some problems with Mesa and/or Glide3 which cause this, however nobody familiar with either has been interested enough in that hardware to try and fix the problem I believe. Our Glide3 contains the last Glide3 updates, so if the problem is in Glide3, it is still a problem. If the problem is in Mesa, it is possible but IMHO unlikely to have been fixed in what we have in rawhide. Mesa 4.0 is another possibility also, but getting it, installing it, is not at all an easy task. My recommendation is to try XFree86 4.2.0 from rawhide and see if the problem is fixed now, and if not, report back here. When I go around the circle back to my tdfx cards again, I'll play around and see if I can poke a fix out of Brian Paul or Darryl Strauss perhaps. ;o) Don't hold your breath though, 3dfx hardware development pretty much ceased over a year ago. ;o( Take care, TTYL -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: xfree86-list@redhat.com General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
