[ut2004] missing eyecandy with openGL?

Gian Paolo Mureddu Thetargos at tutopia.com
Mon Mar 29 12:03:30 EST 2004


Matthew Arnold wrote:

> Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>
>> Matthew Arnold wrote:
>>
>>> Just a datapoint: I have the DVD version of the game which I 
>>> installed via my LG DVD/CD-RW combo drive. I'm using it as a 
>>> straight ATAPI drive without ide-scsi emulation.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>> With a 2.6 kernel? scsi-emu is best for 2.4, since 2.6 has much 
>> better ATAPI support than 2.4 in my case the performance with ATAPI 
>> in 2.6 is slightly faster than SCSI in 2.4. But SCSI-emu in 2.6 is 
>> almost half the speed of SCSI-emu in 2.4; go figure...
>
>
> Yep, 2.6.3 with Slackware 9.0 as I previously mentioned. One of the 
> nice things about the 2.6.x kernel is that they got DMA transfers to 
> finally work right with CD drives. I can actually burn a CD-R at full 
> speed now! IMO, the improved ATAPI CD driver is one of the best 
> features of the new kernel series. It also enabled me to get Mt. 
> Rainier support working with my drive. Of course, this is beginning to 
> stray from the point . . .
>
> Matt
>
Yeah. Bottom line is 2.6 rox0rs (sorry for the utterly empty comment :) )



More information about the ut2004 mailing list