Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 16:00 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways > > of doing graphics when I'm not in X? Sort of like older DOS type > > graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways >of doing graphics when I'm not in X? > That basically it. >Sort of like older DOS type >graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and writing >directly into the card's memory? > > Well, the cl

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways > of doing graphics when I'm not in X? Sort of like older DOS type > graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and writing > directly into the card's memory? Yep. (Great for r

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > What are they? What do they help? How much? > > > > How is this related to the USE flag directfb? > > > > I'm building a machine that isintended to record a lot of video > >using MythTV. The video probably

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi, > What are they? What do they help? How much? > > How is this related to the USE flag directfb? > > I'm building a machine that isintended to record a lot of video >using MythTV. The video probably won't be viewed directly on this >machine but if it is I'd like the pe

[gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, What are they? What do they help? How much? How is this related to the USE flag directfb? I'm building a machine that isintended to record a lot of video using MythTV. The video probably won't be viewed directly on this machine but if it is I'd like the performance to be good. Is