Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:56:51 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed/responsiveness of FreeBSD and X Message-ID: <20000818215651.B3305@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000818163428.D83399@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:34:28PM %2B0100 References: <20000815163951.B39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <399966DC.64D45106@mitre.org> <20000818163428.D83399@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick said on Aug 18, 2000 at 16:34:28: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:50:53AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > | Linux also has a console framebuffer driver that is used for some > | applications that is much much faster than X, but it only works with a > | few applications (mostly games) that are specifically written for it. > > console? so does this run under X or not? I think there are two things here. (1) The linux kernel has a framebuffer driver that "provides an abstraction for the graphics hardware". The X server can run on top of this. I think this is supported only by some graphics cards, and mainly on non-intel machines; I haven't used it. (2) There's a thing called svgalib which supports graphics on SVGA cards without an X server. It doesn't seem very commonly used now. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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