Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:15:40 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: speed/responsiveness of FreeBSD and X Message-ID: <20000818101540.B10480@mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <20000818215651.B3305@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:56:51PM %2B0530 References: <20000815163951.B39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <399966DC.64D45106@mitre.org> <20000818163428.D83399@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000818215651.B3305@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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And Rahul Siddharthan spoke: > 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. What about libggi (in the ports collection)? I think it's supposed to allow the use of graphics under the console. Berlin is a window system in early development that is based on it. I don't know much about it or what other programs use it though. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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