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Re: Notes on adding accelerated OpenGL support to Cygwin/X
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:54:57 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Notes on adding accelerated OpenGL support to Cygwin/X
- References: <4018B5BF.4000506@msu.edu> <20040130165447.GR1930@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Apparently SciTech (Kendall Bennett) donated some code (a driver) for Mesa
> that allows it to accept the OpenGL commands from the client and call
> the equivalent Direct3D counterparts thus providing hardware that has
> a more capable Direct3D layer much more benefit.
I've seen this too. But it seems that this driver was not updated for a long
time. The notes state that this driver was included in mesa 3.x and I've found
no evidence that anybody put hands on it later.
But I might be wrong with this.
bye
ago
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