On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Marcus Comstedt wrote:

 > 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.

Not entirely true.  There are X servers for e.g. the DEC Pixelstamp
framebuffers, which don't give you liner framebuffer access, *at all*.

Send e-mail to Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org> for details.

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