Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

[Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:48:23PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> X4 no longer knows about glide2

That's not precisely true.  xfree86 Build-Depends on libglide2-dev for a
reason; to build the "glide" driver which gives you a *2D* X environment on
Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 cards.

> You can use a V1 and V2 just fine with it under X4 because X4 does not
> need to know anything about them,

What it needs to know about them is provided by libglide2-dev.

What X4 doesn't try to do with those old cards is 3D acceleration.

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