On Sat Jul 20, 2002 Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> (With AGP cards as cheap as they are, there's no reason for me to buy
> another PCI card.  I've just been delaying the switch to AGP because I
> couldn't really get much benefit from it.  I figured that DRI would be the
> natural way to take advantage of a "real" video card.)
>

On the DRI note, for now it is better to go with and AGP card. I've tried to
get DRI under Linux / XFree86 4.1 to work for PCI cards, but can't seem to find
the right incantation. I think this is a known short coming of support for PCI
cards. I remember something about a special kernel interface needed to support
DRI, and it was there for AGP but not PCI.

www.xfree86.org has some great write-ups on getting DRI to work. Also, 
www.lokigames.com. Look under a well-known Graphics gane like Decent3 or
Quake. Go to the FAQs, and reference getting Hardware Acceleration to work.

Gerry Simmons
simmons@darykon.cet.com