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    Phoronix: MSAA Anti-Aliasing Finally Comes To Radeon R300g

    While the AMD Radeon "R300g" Gallium3D driver has been effectively "done" for a while, only this weekend has multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) support come to this open-source graphics driver that supports the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) GPUs and older hardware...

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    This is also only standard MSAA while the proprietary AMD and NVIDIA drivers with modern GPUs support much more advanced anti-aliasing (AA) methods.
    Gallium (including r300g) also supports MLAA.

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    • #3
      I was just about to bring up MLAA. Can we get an update on the status of it?

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      • #4
        Thanks Marek! I'll updated my PPA tomorrow and test on my RV530.

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        • #5
          Test on a LiveCD?

          I have a RS690 (r400) that is unfortunately stuck on Windows right now. How long does piglet usually take to run? Any expected issues with running from a LiveCD?

          Is this the latest piglit website? http://people.freedesktop.org/~nh/piglit/

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          • #6
            Originally posted by gQuigs View Post
            I have a RS690 (r400) that is unfortunately stuck on Windows right now. How long does piglet usually take to run? Any expected issues with running from a LiveCD?

            Is this the latest piglit website? http://people.freedesktop.org/~nh/piglit/
            Yes, download it with git and then see its README: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/piglit/tree/README

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            • #7
              The all.test can take many hours (I tried it some months ago), you can probably do it with a LiveCD if you have enough RAM since you'll have to download a lot of packages to be able to use it. I'd suggest to run the LiveCD image from a USB drive where you can download and save packages after reboting.

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              • #8
                I don't recommend running all.tests. Running quick-driver.tests is enough and doesn't take so long.

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                • #9
                  So Merek, how do you want my money? Very spiffy.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by EmbraceUnity View Post
                    I was just about to bring up MLAA. Can we get an update on the status of it?
                    No changes w/ MLAA since the 8.0 release. The post-processing in general has had some small optimizations.

                    The MLAA implementation is essentially complete, so there isn't really anything to change. New algorithms, like TXAA/FXAA could be added by someone interested as an alternative.

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