Re: tlug: OpenGL driver for Linux

[Takeshi Hakamada <hakamada@example.com>]

From: Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.981109164138.11973U-100000@example.com>
> > > DGA is the XFree86 Direct Graphics Addressing extension.  Kinda like
> > > directX for X :).  Run the dga test program 'dga' to try it.  It'll
> > > segfault your X server, most likely.  CTRL-ALT-DEL will still work,
> > > though.
> > 
> > Oh, thanks. I'll try it tonight. Do you know any applications/games
> > which take advantage of DGA extention?
> 
> Maelstrom does.  Anything linked with SDL does.  Xmame does.. UAE does... 
> 
> Try Maelstrom, since it's small.  Just add the -fullscreen or --fullscreen
> commandline options.  Works on all cards EXCEPT the Riva128.  At least,
> all cards that I've tried.

Oh, Xmame uses DGA extention! I have to check it out more detail
about DGA. I think DGA is only implemented in XFree86 since I can't
find DGA in 'xdpyinfo' output on my SGI system running IRIX with X11R6.3.
Is that true?

-Takeshi
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