John Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can any of the Blackdown developers comment on the VolatileImage
> issue at:
>
> http://www.javagaming.org/discus/messages/111/540.html?1001267464
>
> It seems that Linux VolatileImage won't support direct writing to
> VRAM, meaning that it will be just as slow (I assume) as normal
> BufferedImages. Does this mean that using DGA won't work
IIRC the two main points why we don't use XFree86-DGA are: a) It's a
svgalib-alike full screen thing, b) direct access to the framebuffer
requires superuser privileges.
> (I assume MIT-SHM is already employed for BufferedImage itself).
Yes.
Juergen
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