Hi, just compile X with the aalib and you've got a really funny (g)ui :)

Martin


On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Marcus Comstedt wrote:

>
> >>>>> "dvogel" == dvogel  <dvogel@intercarve.net> writes:
>
>   dvogel> How far would you guys say we are from getting an X server running on the DC?
>
> Well, there is a working framebuffer device at least.  I suppose we'd
> need a mouse driver too.
>
>
>   dvogel> How well suited is the Power VR2 for X? After reading the texts on Marcus's
>   dvogel> site, I would assume it would work pretty well.
>
> The problem is that to really use the PVR features, you'd have to
> rewrite most of the X server, since the rendering model is totally
> different.  The normal Xserver implementation renders stuff by drawing
> in place in a frame buffer.  The PVR hardware can't do that, so you'll
> have to use the CPU.  Which works, but it sloooow.
>
>
>   // Marcus
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>