On Tuesday 24 January 2006 03:22, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > btw, X11 was able to talk to hardware without any kernel-drivers. > > But it has to talk via the video card drivers which are kernel drivers I > would assume. >
you may read up about Xfree86 3.6 and voodoo cards. There was no need for kernel modules. X is able to talk pretty direct to the card, everything else is about the correct opengl/mesa implementation. Kernel-modules are 'faster' but it is very possible to talk to the card's hardware without them. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
