Re: Graphics performance under linux

[Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:43:58PM +0200, Stephan Henningsen wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > 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 =)

GLX is GL over X (developed by sgi), and it's for 3D only. DGA can be
used for anything that needs direct access to the video memory.

Oh, and don't use the binary-only NVidia drivers if you care about your
data. They are broken and known to cause random data corruption.


Erik

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