On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> svgalib is unrelated to the XFree86 SVGA server. Furthermore, the SVGA
> server is the future: when XFree86 4.0 comes out there will be only one
> server and all chipset support will be done in drivers, as TNT support
> is now a driver in the SVGA server (RagePro has dual support, in the
> Mach64 server, and in the ati driver of the SVGA server).
>
> svgalib is used for console graphics, i.e. setting a graphics mode,
> doing what you want (playing Quake, viewing a dvi file, etc.) and
> returning to text mode, rather than using graphics mode all the time (as
> in X).
So, all graphics in Linux boils down to svgalib? Is it possible
for a video card to be supported by X but not svgalib or visa versa?
AL
