On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Jos Hulzink wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Fabio Alemagna wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Brian S. Julin wrote: > > > > Stupid question from an outsider: couldn't it be possible to make the > > application still run by making it use an offscreen buffer while not > > "visible" because of VT switching? It would be really annoying, imho, if > > the application stopped altogether... > > Yeah, nice... My 32 MB Matrox deals with 4 devices, which means you need > 4x32 MB = 128 MB offscreen for that one alone. Glad I don't own a 128 MB > ATI 9700 ... my box got only 256 MB... > > And now serious: Nice idea, but doesn't work. As you can see above, fake > framebuffers are no good but for text modes. If we really want to make a > chance to make it in any kernel, we should come up with something better.
Why should you backup the whole gfx board's memory? Isn't there any way to back up only the area actually used by the application? You know, Amigas deal with full screen graphics and swappable screens perfectly since they're born, even with gfx cards. Fabio Alemagna
