Re: Accelerated frame buffer functions

Gábor Lénárt
2005-02-02T15:50:16Z

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