[Xorg] The big multiconsole nasty

Egbert Eich eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Mon Jul 12 06:04:33 PDT 2004


Adam Jackson writes:
 > 
 > That's not the question though.  The question is about binary-only device 
 > drivers, the ones that aren't in the X tree.
 > 
 > Offhand, I believe the binary modules from ATI, Matrox, and PowerVR are 
 > x86-only and have a kernel component, which makes them not 
 > platform-independent.
 > 

Most of them (except for the NVIDIA driver) they will work without
the kernel module at least for 2D.

Egbert.




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