From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AF65BCE.70A0F40F@relog.ch> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:24:46 +0200 From: Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= Reply-To: michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Willhide Cc: Linux Dev Subject: Re: Video drivers and XFree86 4 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Mike Willhide wrote: > I remember that in order to have an accelerated x server with 3.3.6 you > needed both a driver to put into the kernel and an x server that is > accelerated for your particular card. Has 4.0.x done away with the > necessity of multiple x servers? Yes, there is only one server binary anymore which loads drivers etc. as modules. > If so, do you only need to have a driver for the particular card to get x > accelerated (is a driver for x a different thing than a driver for the > kernel)? Yes and yes. An XFree86 driver is enough in most cases; Only a kernel driver (or none at all) is good for unaccelerated X. > Also, does anyone know the status of the Radeon drivers for LinuxPPC? Last I heard was it wasn't working with acceleration. Maybe Ani Joshi has made progress in his tree. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/