News

There appear to be two new files on the ftp site, MesaLib-3.1beta3.tar.gz and MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz, that seem to be… yes, I’ve just received confirmation from the beta center, they are indeed the THIRD beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian’s absence.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a position with Precision Insight, Inc. effective October, 1999. I’ll be leaving Avid Technology in September.

Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford. Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That means don’t cvs update from a previous download.

A report from the SIGGRAPH ‘99 Linux/OpenGL BOF meeting is now available.

www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren’t fully restored yet. Please be patient.

RPMS of the nVidia RIVA server can be found at ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/.

nVidia has released some Linux binaries for xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the full source, which includes GLX acceleration based on Mesa 3.0. They can be downloaded from https://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html.

Beta 2 of Mesa 3.1 has been make available at ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/. If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path.

May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development. Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux. The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many applications using Mesa 3.

For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight has posted their lowlevel design documents at www.precisioninsight.com.