[geeks] Blender & Jashaka on IRIX

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Jan 16 15:17:52 CST 2003


On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:14:19PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Are you sure it was Windows at fault? Some textures under the named video 
> game were consistently freaky-colored over sessions. Not with my tnt2. 
> Which is now in the closet in favor of a radeon 8500, which rocks and comes 
> from a company that will release hardware specs at least. HA!

For it be a texture problem would indicate that they were drawing a lot
of the screen using textures on linux, but without textures on irix,
since blender runs just fine on machines without TRAM.  And it isn't
really a very sensible place to use textures anyway.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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