On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:58:57AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben> The X servers for sparc do use fb. SPARC video is soley done > Ben> this way. So any of the xserver-sun* packages and the > Ben> xserver-mach64 package for sparc already do what you want. > > Given that, why do we still bother to have multiple xserver-xsun* > packages rather than just xserver-fb? Hardware acceleration?
Exactly. fb is not very fast at all. So the servers are specialized to take advantage of each framebuffer's hardware. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
