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DRI Comes to DirectFB

Posted by michael on from the choices-are-better dept.

Pivot writes "To further heat up the discussion about the future of the graphical desktop on open source OSes: Now the DirectFB project works with DRI!. Screenshots are available. I guess what is lacking now is only XAA driver support, or native drivers for your favourite graphic card." We've mentioned DirectFB before.

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  1. Re:Oh, by the way... by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's a thin layer on top of the kernel framebuffer driver - provides useful APIs and some other services that you need for a windowing system, like WM support. They were also working on a fast IPC mechanism called Fusion when I last checked up on them. Dunno how far that's got.

    The idea is to replace X with something closer to the hardware as far as I know, but today it's mainly useful in embedded scenarios. They have a backwards compatability thing for X clients, which means if you have a supported card you can run your desktop on it and make windows transparent with the capslock key. It's fun for about 2 minutes I should imagine.

    As an aside, does anybody know if the girl in that screenshot lives is single? :D

  2. Great 'article' about how to get a nice console by humming · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's tailored for gentoo, but most stuff applies to most distributions I guess. Not that I'm using them. ;)

    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036

    Then you can get consoles which look like this:
    http://www.alledora.co.uk/images/fb0.jpg
    o r
    http://www.bootsplash.org/silent-mode.jpg

    Files can be recived from
    http://www.bootsplash.org/

    --
    I'm too stupid to preview.