Re: Writing an XFree86 driver for some unusual hardware...

2005-10-08 Thread Mark Vojkovich
You can get the server to render to a system memory buffer using the shadowfb. Many drivers support an Option ShadowFB where rendering happens to system memory and then the driver periodically flushes the system memory framebuffer to the real framebuffer. So you may be able to use this system

Writing an XFree86 driver for some unusual hardware...

2005-10-07 Thread Victor Demchenko
Hello I want to use some device, that is not a video adaptor, as output for XFree86 server. This device receives the 24 bit RGB frames (pictures) as byte stream with finish flag at the end of each one and don't know anything about some kind of timings etc. The speed of output is about 25 fps.