On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 6/12/25 06:44, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
Also, before I only had to worry whether Xorg has drivers for my video
card, but now it is the question of whether kwin or enlightenment has it.
Every Wayland compositor I've seen relies on the kernel drivers for video
cards,
instead of trying to do them in user-space as XFree86 and the early
generations
of Xorg did. This is part of what limits Wayland from working on some other
kernels, that don't have these drivers ported, but shouldn't be a problem on
mainstream Linux & BSD kernels.
Right, Carsten explained it to me. I had a mental picture of equivalent of
Xserver doing mode setting calls and writing to registers, as I remember
it from way back.
thanks
Vladimir Dergachev
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