Re: [Fresco-devel] 3D acceleration for nVidia cards under Fresco

Hello.

>   One has to use SDL with the DGA driver (i.e. SDL on

DGA is not involved.

> X) in order to get 
> 3D acceleration for Fresco via SDL under Linux. I know
> that the nVidia 
> OpenGL library (which is hardware accelerated) is tied
> to the nVidia 
> Linux kernel module. Is there a way to get Fresco to
> load the nVidia 
> Linux kernel module (nvidia.o) in order to access
> graphic cards 
> direclty? Or is the nVidia Linux kernel module X
> specfic?

It's X specific. It needs to link against X. It makes calls to XFree86 
functions.

  Is the idea
> behind the nVidia kernel module the same as what the
> KGI project is 
> trying to do?

Yep, but I understand KGI has had better success with ATI cards?

Nick.