[geeks] Blender & Jashaka on IRIX

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:49:28PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 20:53, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Blender runs fine when it is running on an Irix with the display piped
> > via 10baseT to an O2.  But then, it also runs fine on a P166 with
> > Riva128.  Interestingly, it does not run fine on a Voodoo3 or rage
> > mobility.
> 
> Not a total surprise to me. The voodoo 3 is a pretty crippled card. I mean, 
> it still runs quake3 fast, but the texture size is limited to 256*256 
> pixels etc.

That wasn't the problem with voodoo3 (well, it was a problem, just not
the main one).  I had been under the impression that Mesa fixed all the
major problems that windows had with gl bugs, but boy was I wrong.  The
display in blender kept loosing the tool area.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd