Re: xfree: what is dri and nvidia
Xucaen <xucaen@yahoo.com> writes:
X> "Dr. Aldo Medina" <aldo_medina@yahoo.com> wrote:
AM> Its faster and supports DRI. And with the patch from Nvidia it
AM> rocks in my Riva TNT.
X>
X> what is DRI? what is Nvidia? what's a Riva?
NVidia is a video card manufacturer, Riva TNT is one of their
products. DRI stands for Direct Rendering Infrastructure, it's a way
for X clients to get access to 3D rendering support on the local
machine.
X> why don't I know anything!! EEEEKKK!!!
Well, you don't need to understand *everything*, which it almost seems
like you've set out to do. :-) As a general rule, if something works
(e.g. XFree86 3.3 supports your hardware), you don't need to upgrade
it unless there's some specific feature in the newer version you think
you need.
For questions like "what is foo", it can also help to look them up in
a good Web search engine; I like Google. Google searches for
"NVidia", "Riva TNT", and "DRI" all produced useful material as their
first result. Try http://www.google.com/ or http://www.google.com/linux.
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell
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