Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:26:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: SUMMARY: GGI/X : the other way?? |
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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > For example, fbcon doesn't deal with mouse issues (focus, ...). fbcon is > > > Fa mechanism for stuffing pixels onto the screen. > > Yep. fbcon does basically what KGI does, although it doesn't support > > accelleration, nor a modular driver architecture. (to my knowledge -- I need > > to take a better look at it). Anyway, fbcon drivers could probably become > > KGI drivers extremely easily. > > fbcon is modular if it needs to be, and it deals with accelerations it needs
Yep, frame buffer devices can be loadable kernel modules, loaded `on demand'.
> to know about in text mode and exposes the other stuff to the X server. It > deals with the mode changes too.
For the interested: there's a beta accelerated X server for the Retina Z3 frame buffer device. It drives a chipset that's not supported by XFree86 acceleration (NCR 77C32BLT).
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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