From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:40:27 +0100 Sender: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1084815625.9689.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20040514184004.16621.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040514184004.16621.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: DRI Devel Cc: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= , mesa3d-dev , fb-devel On Gwe, 2004-05-14 at 19:40, Jon Smirl wrote: > Does DirectFB work on anything beside Matrox now? Most cards, accelerated on quite a few including VIA. This is getting into detail. If your 3D sucks you dont us OpenGL as the basis of your whizzo console driver - just as MS plan to support the older UI for older hardware. > the effects are achieved with pixel shaders. xserver features a fully composited > window manager, it needs these features to have a fast response time. You need a 1mS response time at the most extreme. Indeed at 70Hz you need a lot less > What would be reasons for picking another API? Its large, doesn't cover some functionality and doesn't map well to some hardware. If you've got a DRI layer you don't have to *care* what user space library is used and you certainly don't want to dictate it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click