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



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