An fb device would solve this, but as linux didn't have a revoke syscall I
never sent my DGA compatible /dev/fb to linus. The security issues of a
publically readable /dev/fb are very compicated (I would like to know how
ggi has tried to get round them).
> > Yeah, pretty much, although IIRC, DGA apps really don't have any good way to
> > access acceleration at all anyway.
>
> Yes. That is a -big- issue.
As the XFree96 4.0 drivers will be modular it could link them in, but we get
back to the "must be root" problems. But if you are going to use a lot of
accelarated stuff, it is probably better staying in X and using MIT shmem.
X is already optimized for the cards accelarate features..
DGA was added for the apps (games) that just wanted a lot of framebuffer
bandwidth. To be exact I wrote if for Dave Taylor for xquake...
> fbcon is modular if it needs to be, and it deals with accelerations it needs
> to know about in text mode and exposes the other stuff to the X server. It
> deals with the mode changes too.
Yes I think fbcon has all that is needed.
Jon.
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