Re: Graphics performance under linux

[Stephan Henningsen <stephan@nerd.dk>]

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:

> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:32:25PM -0700, Hashem Masoud wrote:
> > Q2: why isn't the other system (for performance
> > reasons) implemented in linux
> 
> It is. It's called the XFree86-DGA (Direct Graphics Access) extension.

NVidia cards use a dedicated driver developed by the
NVidia-team themselves.  I don't think it uses DGA, but GLX
rather.  Whatever that is =)


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