[somethingotherthenwindows]

Is there such think as direct x on linux? or something equivelant to that??If there is i would like to hear all about it! (if possible in rpm format, a thats the only thing i know how to install...)

[trondare]

http://www.libsdl.org is what you're looking for.

Games such as Quake3 and all of Loki's titles use it. If you wanna use RPM's you should get them from your distributor, or find some custom made for your distro at http://rpm.pbone.net

[somethingotherthenwindows]

wow im not smart, i porbably wanted to word that different. i mean the diredtx diognostics tool. where it tells you all the hardware on your system and drivers. (sorry, thanks though)

[trondare]

I know GNOME 2.8.0 has a hardware browser, depending on your distro/gnome version it might or might not be available. For just a listing of PCI cards, run "/usr/sbin/lspci".

[iamroot]

Direct X is a Microsoft thing so its not available on linux, but the WINE project is working on it so we should see a basic directX architecture soon. (hopefully)

[OldSpiceAP]

Directx is an API that allows for interaction with hardware without having to write softweare for each specific hardware type - it makes programming simpler. That said its buggy and lacking in features - even the latest D3D9 can be translated to OpenGL1.2 which is pretty old.

The only time you would need directx in linux is for using windows applications - especially games - otherwise there is no need. Cedega (a comercial wine version) has an imnplementation of it as does wine itself. As for the DXDiagnostics tool - again - there is no need for it in linux.