[SOLVED] On Slackware-current, is mesa built with the enable-nine option?
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On Slackware-current, is mesa built with the enable-nine option?
I'm curious to try wine-staging with d3dadapter to see what kind of performance gains I can get. I would also like to know if this only works with the free ati driver or if I can continue using catalyst.
It is, but nine requires Gallium driver support. Intel usage will require you rebuild Mesa and enable drivers i915 and ilo to use nine. If you use a Radeon or GeForce you'll have Gallium support automatically through ati and nouveau drivers.
Beware about using the proprietary drivers. These do not include Gallium support, so there is no way to make sure that nine will work with them.
Aren't the open source drivers supposed to be up there with the proprietary drivers as far as performance? Some articles I read at Phoronix seemed to imply this. Yet for me the two games I tried running through wine(Guild Wars and Morrowind) run very choppy. Am I mistaken about the performance of the open source drivers or is there additional configuration needed for them? I did check the output of glxinfo and direct rendering is working.
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE open source but in systems as important to a gamer as graphics are, there is just no comparison in performance to that delivered by the boys who designed the graphics system with the possible exception of 2D side scrollers
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