On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:30 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 6/16/05, Vladimir Dergachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity - who are the people that *need* intelfb ? (as opposed to > > *want*). > > To use Xegl it will require you to load both fbdev and DRM drivers for > your hardware. Xegl uses fbdev for things like mode setting.
Xegl should use ... EGL. Eventually some other library we define for mode setting on top of it. Xegl should not rely on fbdev directly. Wether the EGL implementation uses fbdev or somethign else on a given platform should be irrelevant to Xegl. > In X.org > mode setting is done with user space XAA code. Since Xegl uses fbdev > to set the mode (and other things) it doesn't need to set the > registers from user space and thus doesn't need to run as root. > > > > > My impression was that fbdev is necessary only for non-intel folks (like > > powerpc or sparc owners). > > > > best > > > > Vladimir Dergachev > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
