Quoting Torgeir Veimo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:32, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> 
> > The Radeon DRI driver should work with DirectFBGL, at least without
> > hardware acceleration in DirectFB. There's no need for a DirectFB driver
> > to get a DRI driver working for DirectFBGL. 
> 
> Are specific DirectFB drivers required at all when a generic,
> non-accelerated fb driver exists? Or are there corner cases like video
> playback etc, that require specific DirectFB drivers?

The only drawbacks except speed are

1) Software driver is not 100% implemented, e.g. YUV<->RGB conversion
2) Display layers are totally hardware dependent

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Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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