Re: DSA-1494-1 - Graphics errors

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DSA-1494-1 - Graphics errors
\ Thomas Hungenberg (14 Feb 2008)
. \ Riku Valli (14 Feb 2008)
. . \ Yves-Alexis Perez (14 Feb 2008)
. . \ Thomas Hungenberg (14 Feb 2008)
. \ Florian Weimer (18 Feb 2008)
. . \ Thomas Hungenberg (19 Feb 2008)
. \ Thomas Hungenberg (21 Feb 2008)
. . \ Noah Meyerhans (21 Feb 2008)

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Subject:	Re: DSA-1494-1 - Graphics errors
Group:	Debian-security
From:	Noah Meyerhans
Date:	21 Feb 2008

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