Quoting Ville Syrj?l? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:06:25AM +0100, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > > A problem is that XDirectFB currently has to lock the window surfaces > > for the software fallbacks of the X Server permanantly. > > So they stay locked even if the windows aren't visible?
Invisible windows (unmapped) don't have a DirectFB window. > I haven't looked at XDirectFB sources. How much acceleration does it use > and how much is done via sw fallbacks? It's not that much, rectangle filling and window moving. > > An interesting work would be to use command buffers via AGP with an interrupt > > for the card getting idle. > > That would be nice. I've been thinking about converting the driver to use > pseudo DMA but never got around to it. It could be a simple enough first > step towards real DMA. I tried to do pseudo DMA once but obviously missed something because no operations at all ever got executed. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" Convergence GmbH -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
