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Direct X on linux??

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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".

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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)

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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.

 

 

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