Bounty for better Radeon Mediator drivers

[woof]

Hello

You wrote
"for OS.39 suck They lack speed and there is no Warp3D support.
On OS4.1 Classic it is the other way around. The Voodoo drivers are slow and Warp3D support is not good"

Excuse my ignorance but why does the old  (good) 3.9 driver dont works on os4.1 ?
(After all they are both AmigaOS .library (ies) )
Is it because the 3.9 one is 68k and the 4.1 ppc ?
Or perhaps because 3.9 driver is Warp3D v4 and os4.1 is v5 ?
I mean does old 68k progs (that still use v4) works well on os4.1 with the old driver ? and only
new progs (that use v5) dont works  ?

>aros(68k), introduce pci bridges support to it, make gallium work on it, and introduce wazp3d to gallium wrapper. sounds complex and im not sure it would actually work, but thats what i would try. mind you i have pursued this subject few years ago and turned to aros as result anyway
I fully agree with Wawa :-)

The way is :
compile Mesa for Aros 68k : first as software
then make (hardware) gallium  works with  it on Aros 68k (pci stuff...)
Recompile Wazp3D-Aros (that already include an OpenGL renderer) on Aros 68k
 

Alain Thellier

[woof]

>Are you the man for that project Alain? :-)
Absolutely NO: I dont have classic hardware anymore so I wont be able to test such a low-lewel thing


>Recompile Wazp3D-Aros
>>for 68k. alas it doesnt work, crashes....
Curious the software rendering should works
Perhaps there is a problem with the #define in Wazp3D.h as Aros is supposed to be Intel ordered and to use Mesa/Gallium

Does Wazp3D-Prefs works ? What say the Wazp3D debugger before crashing ?

Alain Thellier (aka Wazp3D)

[woof]

>What options

Renderer: hard
Enable debugger
Debug var
Debug val
Debug function
Debug  soft3d
Debuug sc & hard

[woof]

Yes if gallium softpipe is not ready
then u can try soft to image

It will just allow to know if wazp aros 68k is correct
But if gallium is not ready. ..  No much interesting

Alain

[woof]

>Catch the log
Are you kidding?
just do a redirection something like
 yourprog > ram:debug.txt

Alain

[woof]

Hello Wawa

>no comments?
Let me some time I was in week end :-)

>curious that it starts with error
This not an error value but the adresse of "error" that is a parameter for W3D_CreateContextTags
W3D_Context *W3D_CreateContextTags(ULONG *error, Tag tag1, ...)

The real error occurs here:
"AROS: Cant create Mesa context"
= Mesa/Gallium Error

>cow3d rendering to bitmap shows an empty window
That is very strange as the debug say

SOFT3D_Flush
 SC->FragSize2=28

That mean that (at least) 28 pixels were written to bitmap
so something should appear !

Perhaps there is a probleme with 16 bits modes. Does 24/32 bits works ?

I will try to download Aros68k and test cow3d myself

BTW can I send someone (Olaf?) the latests Wazp3D sources to update the Aros version to my latest build

Alain Thellier (Wazp3D)

[woof]

Yes it was Matthias Rustler that dit the Wazp3D Aros port
I will contact him soon (and you Wawa) but I need to check the latests sources and I dont have the time today
But I will do that this week
Same  for aros 68k iso + cow3d : dont have the time yet but I will check that soon

Alain Thellier (Wazp3D)