[GRLUG] Meeting agenda?

[Tim Schmidt]

On 10/19/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eh...  for PCs, which is what we're talking about here, all video
> cards are supported by a kernel without any special drivers being
> enabled under 'character devices'.  The kernel simply doesn't care
> about anything other than throwing text at something that looks
> remotely VGA-compliant.
>
> Now, if you want fancy graphics on your normally text-based terminal,
> or way more than an 80 character wide screen, you get to play around
> with these drivers.

Heh...  DRI may live in there too...  which strictly speaking, isn't
nescessary, but a few folks probably want (me included).  Fortunately,
most of the DRI-related drivers seem to be enabled by default.

--tim