From: albert e martinez eet stnt (aem2564@megahertz.njit.edu)
Date: Tue 02 Feb 1999 - 05:36:52 IST
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > svgalib is unrelated to the XFree86 SVGA server. Furthermore, the SVGA > server is the future: when XFree86 4.0 comes out there will be only one > server and all chipset support will be done in drivers, as TNT support > is now a driver in the SVGA server (RagePro has dual support, in the > Mach64 server, and in the ati driver of the SVGA server). > > svgalib is used for console graphics, i.e. setting a graphics mode, > doing what you want (playing Quake, viewing a dvi file, etc.) and > returning to text mode, rather than using graphics mode all the time (as > in X). So, all graphics in Linux boils down to svgalib? Is it possible for a video card to be supported by X but not svgalib or visa versa? AL
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