From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:01:34 +0200 (CEST)

Accelleration (Was: Re: TNT benchmark)

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I ran the same tests except that the card is a TNT now.
> 
Cool, running benchmarks on unaccellerated drivers and comparing them with
Direct X... The only KGICON drivers that support accelleration AFAIK are
the Matrox drivers and the S3 ViRGE drivers on my machine :)

In one thing Linus is right: Some parts of the GGI project have no clear
goal. In my eyes, there has been no good thinking about the
accelleration of drivers. I'm implementing 3D accelleration for the ViRGE now,
but to get this working, I have to hack libggi. I thought the idea of a
driver was that software doesn't have to deal with driver-specific code
anymore ? I have to recompile libggi if I change from the nvriva driver to
the S3 virge driver... Nice... :(

Jos Hulzink

p.s.: ViRGE driver update in a few days. It is cool and should work not
only for ViRGE DX. Accellerated screen to screen copy etc...