[lug] anyone know how PCI-E works with Xorg X11 hardware accel?

[D. Stimits]

I'm curious about something...it used to be everyone with hardware accel 
had an AGP slot video card. To get hardware accel, the X11 server had to 
be set for this, plus a kernel module had to be enabled for using the 
AGP slot. With PCI Express, there is no more AGP slot, but there is a 
PCI-E driver. Does the X11 server not care if the source of the hardware 
accel is AGP versus PCI-E? Or is the server unaware of and uncaring of 
how it gets this ability? Does one PCI-E driver fit all hardware accel 
PCI-E video cards? And is it ready for "prime time" (especially on 
nVidia cards)?

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net