Re: [Plib-devel] I'm outta here.

[Philippe C.D. R. <ro...@ia...>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Christian Mayer wrote:
> I'm not reading the 'unofficial' sites with the rumors, but the official
> nVidia Linux driver site
> (http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html)
> says:
> 
>   ... The upcoming XFree86 X server 4.0 will use the Direct
>   Rendering Infrastructure required to take full advantage of the
>   RIVA processors. ...
> 
> This tells me that they'll use DRI. (Currently they aren't. But their
> current drivers crash with even the most simplistic OpenGl applications
> very badly)

nVidia won't use DRI. There drivers will be written by SGI, they will be binary
only and offer sth similar to DRI - but NOT DRI due to licensing reasons!
  
sweet dreams, Phil
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