[rescue] Linux Luserisms (was: secondary market storage?)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:20:09AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:28:05AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Screw the gefarce cards.  I want a distro that allows me to use Wildcats and
> > digital voodoo cards out of the box.  But, that seems to be asking too much.
> 
> this has less to do with Linux, and FAR MORE to do with XFree86 which is a
> completely seperate thing.

Now, once upon a time, wasn't it that the OS managed the graphics hardware, 
and X ran on the overlay planes?  I'm not sure how hardware cursors, hardware
bitblts, etc fit into that picture, but I'm told they did.  I know that quite
a lot of systems over the years were written for SGIs to be run without X, but
while still using the 3D hardware.

Besides, digital voodoo cards (see http://www.digitalvoodoo.net/products.htm)
have nothing to do with X, unless you want to do a Quantel type thing with 
the gui running on an SDI monitor (thing like firewire, except much higher
end).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd