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Re: DSA-1494-1 - Graphics errors

From: Noah Meyerhans <noahm(at)debian.org>
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 08:36:07 EST


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:16:33PM +0100, Thomas Hungenberg wrote:
> I am a little bit surprised that - apart from small graphics errors
> and some performance issues - the fglrx driver runs fine without
> the kernel module.
> I thought that starting x.org would fail if the kernel module is not
> available.

fglrx is OK without its kernel module, though you don't get GL accelleration. The proprietary nvidia drivers, OTOH, don't work without their kernel half.

noah

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