On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:40:07 -0800 Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Wright wrote: > > > It doesn't seem all that long ago that DGA V2 was added, why was it ever > > introduced if it causes > >grief for the driver writers? What where the original intentions of including the > >DGA extension into > >Xfree86? > > > > > > Same as DirectDraw in Windows. Some app writers want to own the desktop > and draw directly onto the bits of the frame buffer. Both DirectDraw > and DGA provide that access, and both of them are a pain for driver > writers. It doesn't make them evil. > Exactly, DGA is about the closest to DirectDraw we can get. I understand it must be a pain for the driver writers, but I wouldn't like to see DGA dropped for that reason alone. > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
