Re: tlug: OpenGL driver for Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Takeshi Hakamada wrote:

> 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?

True.  DGA is an XFree86-only extension.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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