On Fri, 4 May 2001, 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.
Yes, that is correct, however there is no good "technical" reason
for someone having to manually intervene and configure their
video card by hand - if I can make the computer do it for them.
Not doing so is a failure on the part of the system. I want to
fix that, especially since it is a hot topic on our tech support
lines, and also in bugzilla. IMHO it is a bug.
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