Accelerated X Display Server

1995 · operating-system · driver · graphics · Linux · Xi Graphics

Xi Graphics Accelerated-X V6.0 Graphics drivers for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD. The Accelerated-X server is built on top of the X386 X server that was created by Thomas Roell for X11 Release 5 Accelerated-X server provides an "overlay mode" on several graphics cards which allows running ancient, 256 color mode-only Unix alongside more modern applications on truecolor 24-bit displays. It used to provide much better driver support (hardware acceleration, 3D and compatibility, especially on integrated graphics) than XFree86, at a time when the major graphics chipset vendors were not supporting Linux officially.