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Re: OpenGL resolutions

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Katie Lucas wrote:

> > > Or, you could play it safe and use XF86VidModeSwitchToMode() (see man page)
> > 
> > Isn't that an XF86 specific call?
> > 
> > How about using SDL instead - or does it require XF86 as well?
> 
> Linking in the whole of SDL to use one function call is a Bit
> Excessive. And I was under the impression SDL required X11 running on
> Linux...

Other X servers than XFree86 actually exists for Linux. Some of them even
have much better 3d hardware support.

But, of course, its probably a very tiny fraction of your potential users
that do not use XFree86. I had to change because of Quake3, that actually
required XFree86. Before that I was running MetroX - which in many ways
was a better X server than XFree86. 

Not dissing XFree86 - just pointing out that there are choice.

Mads

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