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

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:10:04PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:41:24PM -0700, websjr wrote:
> >   One has to use SDL with the DGA driver (i.e. SDL on
> > 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? Is the idea 
> > behind the nVidia kernel module the same as what the
> > KGI project is 
> > trying to do?
> 
> -- Nathaniel

Err, sorry about that.  Someday I will learn the difference between
"cancel" and "send".

-- Nathaniel

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