Reimar Grabowski wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:19:07 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
and in my experience the thing that's most likely to work is DVD
playback because the data stream is (as I understand it) sent via a
backdoor to the graphics chips bypassing most of the kernel and X.
On Linux and BSD at least it's the standard to bypass X when talking to the GPU.
With the major caveat that the interfaces used for playing video and for
program-generated graphics are distinct (hardware MPEG decompression in
one case, OpenGL in the other) and having one work implies nothing about
the other.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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