Re: Accelerated frame buffer functions

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:21:55PM +0100, Haakon Riiser wrote:
> > X-Windows already does this.
> 
> Yeah, I thought the X11 fbdev driver supported acceleration, but not
> according to its manpage:
> 
>   fbdev is an Xorg driver for framebuffer devices.  This is a
>   non-accelerated driver [...]

Yepp, it would be cool, to move every low level graphical operation to the
 framebuffer devices ... So no more 'I would like to use framebuffer
console _AND_ X at the same time without disturbing each other' problem,
and also if X segfaults or such, consolse will not remain in unusable state.
Also a solid low level graphical operation layer should provide even 3D
acceleration for fbdev capable (but not X!) apps and of course for the
X server ... without conflicting each other :) DirectFB seems to be a good
idea anyway ...

- Gábor
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