Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 31 May 1996 01:41:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Ian main <> | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. |
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On Thu, 30 May 1996, root wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any plans incorporate any of the major video > card chipsets into low level kernel driver support. SVGALIB at current > has a very limited number of chipsets that it supports not to mention I > would think a low level kernel driver would get better performence out of > the video hardware. I for one would like to be able to use the features > of my Matrox MGA Millenium in linux :) > > Thanks
Call me crazy.. I had a talk with someone a while back about this. We thought it'd be a good idea to have a single driver implemented somehow.. one that X could use, and any other app that chose to. This would have a few advantages. It would be more stable (ie no wierd text distortion etc. like you get with SVGALIB sometimes) because the one driver could have complete control over the video card. Also... Xfree supports a lot more hardware that svgalib does. If some of the code for the X drivers could be used in this new implementation, it would be much better than SVGALIB is now. Now I am not the one to say where this should be implemented.. whether it be in the kernel, or just a standard library.. I dunno, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Having a single _smart_ driver for the video hardware would make graphical applications much more attainable, stable, standardized, supported, etc.
Ian
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