Re: [Dri-devel] Determining the proper Glide library to use at runtime

[Mike A. H. <mh...@re...>]

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?



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