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
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:51:35AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Just look at this picture and you can see the trend of 2D vs 3D (coprocessor
> based) graphics.
> http://www.de.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/images/architecture.gif
> Within one or two generations the 2D box is going to be gone.
Sor
Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:40:04AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
--- Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I said OpenGL is the only accelerated API available on Linux. Can you name
another?
DirectFB.
Does DirectFB work on anything beside Matrox now?
It works on any card with a w
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:35:56AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > Notice that this is not really true, as there is no free OpenGL
> > acceleration for any of the newer graphic cards coming out right now.
> > The fastest graphic card with full free acceleration is the radeon
> > 9000,
> > which is n
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:27:34AM +0200, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> >On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:40:04AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> >>Does DirectFB work on anything beside Matrox now?
> >
> >
> >It works on any card with a working fbdev driver (vga16fb excluded).
> >Hardwa
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:40:04AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I said OpenGL is the only accelerated API available on Linux. Can you name
> > > another?
> >
> > DirectFB.
>
> Does DirectFB work on anything beside Matrox now?
It works on any card w
--- Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't understand you GPU vs. PIO comparisons. You can use the 2D engine
> with DMA as well. And at least with older cards the 2D engine is clearly
> faster than the 3D engine (~100% faster for blits on my G400) so trying to
> bypass it is just stu
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:50:40PM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > --- James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2) Ben suggestion that we mount userland inside the kernel during
> early
> > >boot and use a userland library. If we would use a libr
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:51:35AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Just look at this picture and you can see the trend of 2D vs 3D (coprocessor
> based) graphics.
> http://www.de.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/images/architecture.gif
> Within one or two generations the 2D box is going to be gone.
>
>
Just look at this picture and you can see the trend of 2D vs 3D (coprocessor
based) graphics.
http://www.de.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/images/architecture.gif
Within one or two generations the 2D box is going to be gone.
If Linux wants to stay current with technology we have to start using
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