Re: Poll: Video Access

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Francesco Orsenigo wrote:
> What do you use to gain access to video?
> (GLUT, SDL, ALLEGRO, ClandLIB, XLib....)
For simple tasks - GLUT/OpenGL for complex tasks
XLib/OpenGL.

I'm also using 'freeglut' instead of GLUT because
it's rapidly becoming very stable - and has fixed a
lot of design problems that GLUT has.

> Is possible to gain control of DRI?
No.  (Or at least if it is possible, it would
be such an evil, non-portable and undocumented
way in that we'd have to kill you for even
entertaining the merest possibility of the
thought of doing it).

Not all graphics cards use DRI.  Notably, nVidia
do not.

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