On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:02:05AM -0400, Jon Niehof wrote:
> > For the DRI, the easiest solution would be to have the dri_tdfx.o
> > dynamically load the appropriate Glide. The X server knows what
> > hardware it is running on and passes that to the client (via the PCI
> > id). If you did this, you could also change the X tree to include the
> > appropriate glide.h header file and remove the dependency on Glide in X
> > all together. It should be relatively easy to put together.
>
> I might also point out that on the Windows side, it's up to the user to
> download the right drivers for their card. Not that we shouldn't be able to
> do things better than Windows, but that this sort of automatic switching of
> glide libraries isn't done elsewhere, either.
Right, that's what got us into this mess in the first place. I basicaly
stuck to the same methodology 3dfx was using. I did realize it was a
problem as did 3dfx (on Windows and Linux), but it never got far enough
up the task list to get adressed.
- |Daryll
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