Daryll Strauss wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:12:46AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> >
> > >It depends on what part of the process you want to solve.
> > >
> > >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.
> >
> > That sounds even better to me. If done though, wouldn't it cause
> > problems with programs directly linked with Glide3?
>
> The DRI glide is ONLY useful for the DRI. It won't function in stand
> alone mode at all. In other words, there isn't just V3 and V5 versions,
> but also V3-non-DRI, V3-DRI, V5-DRI versions. But, Glide is dead and I
> wouldn't worry about it or support it.
I'd say that attitude will piss a lot of people off. Linux has always
had pretty good support for 3dfx hardware -- it seems extreme to cut off
all the people who still have V3 or V5 cards. Do we remove all 3dfx
drivers from XFree86, the DRI and Mesa as well?
-- Gareth
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