[Xorg] The big multiconsole nasty

Stuart Anderson anderson at netsweng.com
Fri Jul 9 04:53:28 PDT 2004


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> How many of those binary-only device drivers are truly platform-independent
> and don't require special kernel modules or other platform-dependent bits?
> (I admit, I've only tried the Nvidia binary driver - I don't know about any
>   others that may exist.)

Roughly, all of them _execpt_ the Nvidia driver. 8-). All of the driver
that are part of the XFree86/Xorg tree should be binary portable, at
least for 2D stuff.


                                Stuart

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