[haiku] Re: OpenArena on Haiku

On 2009-06-19 at 15:10:04 [+0200], Casalinuovo Dario <barrett666@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Hi folks, last night i compiled OpenArena for Haiku, i can't test them 
> for now because i'm runninng Haiku in vesa, i have a geforce 7300, i sent 
> an email to rudolf ; ).

The native nVidia driver works for my 7300 (LE ??). But since I disabled 
the acceleration, it runs exactly as well as the VESA mode. I am not sure 
if there is currently any graphics card which benefits from the 3D 
acceleration that Rudolf experimented with a couple years ago. For that, 
those 3D drivers would need to be integrated with our MESA OpenGL stack. 
Rudolf and/or Phillippe or maybe Jérôme can possibly comment on this.

Also, Artur ("aljen" if memory doesn't fail me) worked on porting Gallium3D 
and got pretty far. As far as it replacing our MESA as the software 
renderer, although being about twice slower at that. I don't know if he 
succeeded as far as making any of the actual hardware 3D drivers of the 
Gallium framework work. Would be pretty cool if this were developed in an 
actuall Haiku repository branch, so it gets more exposure and one can more 
easily follow the progress...

> I prepared a page with the instructions to test the binaries :
> 
> http://www.bluetechnoids.org/wiki/doku.php?id=openarena
> 
> I think that this can interest to the community, in the page there is a 
> source package, suggestions are appreciated.

Very cool.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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