Sorry, where is the advantage of use framebuffer instead use xmc world? Il giorno lun 2 mar 2020 alle ore 21:22 Frank Tkalcevic < fr...@franksworkshop.com.au> ha scritto:
> > My question: > > > > Will using the framebuffer (instead of X) make a better environment for > > LinuxCNC? > > For low spec. computers, not having the overhead of X, is a bonus. You'll > also boot faster into linuxcnc. > > But, you won't be able to run other applications or utilities. And you'll > need to write everything from scratch - X's OpenGL is used for the 3d. > > > ( I am ankle deep in FB programming now and wondering if I should get in > deeper or head for higher ground ) > > I played around with Qt and its option to use the framebuffer as the output > device (with the command line option '-platform linuxfb:fb=/dev/fb0'). > Theoretically, you can write 1 Qt program that would work with X or FB. > That > proof of concept worked, but I didn't have time to take it further. > > Recently I tried to apply the same option with one of the Qt linuxcnc UIs > (pyqt?), but they used other parts of X so it would not run (from memory it > was IPC libraries; D-bus?) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
