On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:48:29PM +0200, Tom Schouten wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> i am looking for a hardware setup which will enable me to do
> the following with directfb:
> 
> * use opengl with double buffering
> * sync to the monitor refresh interrupt (using blocking io, no polling)
> 
> it is for an experiment related to perception-psychology,
> so timing is of utmost importance. it will probably involve
> some special purpose (serial port) hardware later.
> 
> i want to run the graphics outside of X11 for timing issues. 
> X11 and SCHED_FIFO do not mix that well. i tried raw framebuffer,
> but since it involves a lot of coordinate transforms i'm looking
> into the possibility to use directfb + gl
> 
> the system will be bare bones: lowlat linux kernel + experiment app,
> so no problems with legacy software i hope.
> 
> the graphics requirements are very simple, so an old or cheap
> card may be enough.
> 
> i have:
> * matrox G450

This card is supported.

Grab the cvs versions of DirectFB and DirectFBGL and get the Mesa tarball 
from my website http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/gl/. Then read the readme.txt 
also found on my website.

-- 
Ville Syrj�l�
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http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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