From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Test release of rewritten Creator/Creator3D/Elite3D support To: ultralinux@vger.rutgers.edu Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:29:57 +0100 (CET) Hi! Myself and David Miller would like to announce a test release of our Xsun24 rewrite of the Creator/Creator3D/Elite3D driver. We've spent on it quite a few months and would like to offer it for public use if no showstoppers are found. Basically, your Creator/3D/Elite3D should run now much faster, because we try to get as much as possible from the chip. Xmark93 went from 23808 to 39247, Xstones from 86842 to 466236 (both x11perf and xbench are benchmarks measuring speed of most commonly used X operations). All these numbers are in 32bpp (most of the PCI cards might have good numbers in 8bpp (but I doubt it could have nearly 500kXstones), but will be slow as pig in 32bpp). For exact numbers and rpms see http://ultra.linux.cz/ftp/OS/Linux/Sparc/local/XFree86/ announcement can be found at http://ultra.linux.cz/ftp/OS/Linux/Sparc/local/XFree86/creator.html We'd like to get some feedback on it, fix last few bugs if some appear and then put this into distributions. Once we integrate it into XFree86 4.0, we'll add support for mixed 32/8bpp windows on the same screen and extensive 3D support (even for the 2D models), so there are really things to improve. BTW: The reported bug with mouse cursor disappearing near the left/top edges is fixed. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ UltraLinux | http://ultra.linux.cz/ | http://ultra.penguin.cz/ Linux version 2.2.3 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________