On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Steven downing wrote:
This is probably documented somewhere, but just going off the top of my
head...
> ddc (Monitor identification??)
yep. DDC is a recent standard to communicate with monitors and get
information straight from the source.
> xie
X Imaging Extension. Supposed to be some optimized image routines in the X
server? I don't know if anything actually uses this...
> pex5
Woah. Old 3D standard from the days of plain old IrisGL (before it became
OpenGL). Like XIE, you're only likely to need this for old legacy
(niche?) apps.
> freetype (Truetype??)
Truetype font renderer. I like to use an external font server daemon
(xfs). That way, the X server doesn't lock up while it's rasterizing
complex fonts. Or have they gone multithreaded (or something) in XF4?
> speedo
Speedo is an old font renderer. So you only need it if you have speedo
fonts you need.
> I know dri is direct rendering, but from
> what I understand, it's not compatible with
> the 2.4.0 dri structure. True?
I've never had trouble with 2.4 kernels.
> Riva TNT2 w/ Nividia Kernel drivers FWIW.
Do the Nvidia drivers use DRI? I heard somewhere that they had their
own API, but that might have just been a rumour.
bye
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