Timothy Murphy wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 15:19 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
2009/6/1 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>:
T&L capability
Texture and Lighting capability.
While I agree that it's a stupid acronym, it's part of a fairly
generic "you can't run this game because..." error which has been
pasted verbatim.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22T%26L+capability%22
Fair enough, though I wonder how many non-gamers would recognize it.
As the OP, I had never heard of T&L and am certainly no gamer,
but that is what the error log complains of.
As far as I can see, it is a standard acronym,
and it would be as odd to call it Texture and Lighting
as it would be to call PCI <whatever PCI stands for>.
Which reminds me - apparently there is a second hurdle
I have to get over, which is to distinguish between PCI and PCI-E.
I think the Asus K8V-MX motherboard I am concerned with
provides PCI slots, not PCI-E.
Try "dmidecode | grep -i pci" and see. PCI Express = PCI-E. My
M3N78-VM has both:
[root@hamster ~]# dmidecode | grep -i pci
PCI is supported
Designation: PCIEX1
Type: 32-bit PCI Express
Designation: PCIEX16
Type: 32-bit PCI Express
Designation: PCI1
Type: 32-bit PCI
Designation: PCI2
Type: 32-bit PCI
Also there is something about AGP, but I'm not sure
how significant that is, or if it is universal nowadays.
A lot of video cards plug into AGP slots. dmidecode can tell you.
Graphics cards are much more complicated than I thought.
Heheheheh! Amen, bruddah!
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