Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread Vishwas P S
Can the display/video card recognize two planes (a BG and an FG) .. If yes, it would be very easy to overlay one (FG )onto the other and the app/driver generating the video(FG) data need not worry abt graphics FB and delegate the job of combining to the hardware ? Is this a possibility on the

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:16:37 +0530 Vishwas P S [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Can the display/video card recognize two planes (a BG and an FG) .. If yes, it would be very easy to overlay one (FG )onto the other and the app/driver generating the video(FG) data need not worry abt graphics FB and

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread Vishwas P S
OK. In that case how do we prevent tearing of images on the screen ? i.e. how do we implement a tearing-less display solution ? Normally as far as I know, /dev/fb's memory would be mapped to apps and there is no way for the driver to sync memory updates with Vsync ... Pl correct me if I'm wrong -

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread David Samblas Martinez
--- Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: no. This is a clear answer X-D __ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 8 May 2008 14:20:28 +0530 Vishwas P S [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: OK. In that case how do we prevent tearing of images on the screen ? i.e. how do we implement a tearing-less display solution ? Normally as far as I know, /dev/fb's memory would be mapped to apps and there is no way for

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread Bin Chen
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, David Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: no. This is a clear answer X-D What does X-D mean? ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread David Samblas Martinez
Answered out the list --- Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, David Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: no. This is a clear answer X-D What does X-D mean?

How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-07 Thread Bin Chen
Hi, I just take a look at media player source code, seems the mplayer use the fbdev directly instead of X. So I think there are two fbdev in system? One for X the other for mplayer? Otherwise it will conflict. Thanks. Bin ___ Openmoko community

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-07 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 8 May 2008 11:04:37 +0800 Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi, I just take a look at media player source code, seems the mplayer use the fbdev directly instead of X. So I think there are two fbdev in system? One for X the other for mplayer? nup. there can be only one. (yes - bad