I believe there was some discussion of this on the directfb mailing list. I think the savage chips require a tile based framebuffer for acceleration, but this is incompatible with things that assume a linear based framebuffer.
Alex --- Felix K�hling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found at least a workaround for the problem. Set > > Option "DisableTile" "on" > > in the Device section of XF86Config-4. I think this has something to > do > with the frame buffer layout. Accellerated stuff seems to get it > right. > But non-accelerated stuff accesses the frame buffer in the wrong way. > Try Option "Accel" "off" and you'll see what I mean. Basically the > screen is squeezed vertically to half the height. > > I havn't found a real fix yet. Does someone with more 2D experience > have > a pointer? > > Felix > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:36:02 -0300 > Rafael Maximo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > I didn't commit any change to CVS yet, basicaly because all > problems i got. > > For now the 2D driver need to be fixed (i didn't have time to look > deep in > > this problem) and the code of the savage driver from S3 is a little > bit > > confusing and sometimes very different from the other drivers and > > everything need to be fixed (2D, 3D and probably the kernel > module). > > > > Besides all these problems, i'm not a very experienced programer > witch make > > things e little harder for me. > > > > Any help will be very welcome. > > > > bye. > > > > > > Rafael M�ximo > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > > > ------------ __\|/__ ___ ___ > ------------------------- > Felix ___\_e -_/___/ __\___/ __\_____ You can do anything, > K�hling (_____\�/____/ /_____/ /________) just not everything > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \___/ \___/ U at the same time. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
