Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:01:57 -0500 (CDT) | From | Phil Brutsche <> | Subject | Re: fbdev & KGI. |
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > I apologise for continuing the GGI thread, but... > > Could someone (Geert?) outline the main conceptual and actual differences > between fbdev and KGI? Essentially none. KGI and fbdev both provide frame buffers for user-level apps; the primary difference is kgi uses drivers specific to the video chipset while fbdev uses a generic driver that will, for example create a 640x480x16color video console on systems that don't have a text mode. The bad thing is that I don't think that fbdev will know how to talk to every single video adapter out there without chipset drivers.
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