Hardware aceleration

How is SDL accelerated by certain video cards? Is it through x video
extension? Or is it a special case thing?

-Benjamin Meyer

How is SDL accelerated by certain video cards? Is it through x video
extension? Or is it a special case thing?

Under X11, acceleration is provided by DGA 2.0, which requires XFree86 4.0,
the SDL “dga” video driver, and root privileges.

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-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software