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SubjectRe: SUMMARY: GGI/X : the other way??
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

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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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