On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Nimrod Mesika wrote:
> I thought the whole point of XFree4 new driver mechanism was that
> it was OS-neutral. It should be possible to run the same binary
> driver on all x86 platforms running XFree4 *without* recompiling.
>
> I don't know how this driver interacts with the kernel module,
> though. I'm not sure I even understand why a kernel module is
> needed in this case.
i believe it requires hooks into the kernel to make use of AGP, which is
necessary for high performance 3d rendering.
-garrett
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