We really like to support newer cards like GeForce or ATI Radeon. The problem is to get enough documentation to implement all the features supported by DirectFB. Taking X driver source does not much help, because X drivers support only the basic operations.
And you can have an X server running on DirectFB!
The current XDirectFB uses DirectFB in fullscreen mode, it does its own window management. Just think of a rootless X on DirectFB, like on MacOS X. You could have X applications going through the server and DirectFB applications or games running directly at full speed. When the X server has been enhanced to use DirectFB's window management it would be easily possible to set the window opacity (ranging from 0-255) of any legacy application.
X is a great technology and I think DirectFB is rather a good base than a replacement of this technology.
first I was surprised to read the news.
Then I thought it would be nice to have this box for porting Linux to it.
Would be the best present for the birthday of the Xbox, an already running linux on a NV20-like chip;)
Too bad that the beta box is only available near Seattle. Maybe they want to exclude some big regions of reengeneering.
Anyway, I would never buy this "Intel PC" with a Windows 2000 where only one process (but with multiple threads) can run (in RING0!!).
For whom did those innocent people die? They died for money!!! They died for a government that does not care about nuclear risks! Stop those killing bastards!
If the money put in nuclear power science had been put into solar power science, we would have solar plants that are as profitable as nuclear ones!
Stop it, time will come and we will be blown up by ourselfes...
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You might want to have a look at this new QtDirectFB screenshot:
http://www.directfb.org/screenshots/FirstQt.png
I'm really looking forward to having the KDE libraries independent from QtX11.
Best Regards,
Denis Oliver Kropp
We really like to support newer cards like GeForce or ATI Radeon. The problem is to get enough documentation to implement all the features supported by DirectFB. Taking X driver source does not much help, because X drivers support only the basic operations.
And you can have an X server running on DirectFB!
The current XDirectFB uses DirectFB in fullscreen mode, it does its own window management. Just think of a rootless X on DirectFB, like on MacOS X. You could have X applications going through the server and DirectFB applications or games running directly at full speed. When the X server has been enhanced to use DirectFB's window management it would be easily possible to set the window opacity (ranging from 0-255) of any legacy application.
X is a great technology and I think DirectFB is rather a good base than a replacement of this technology.
Hmm,
;)
first I was surprised to read the news.
Then I thought it would be nice to have this box for porting Linux to it.
Would be the best present for the birthday of the Xbox, an already running linux on a NV20-like chip
Too bad that the beta box is only available near Seattle. Maybe they want to exclude some big regions of reengeneering.
Anyway, I would never buy this "Intel PC" with a Windows 2000 where only one process (but with multiple threads) can run (in RING0!!).
GOOD HACKING, SEATTLE LUCKIES
For whom did those innocent people die?
They died for money!!!
They died for a government that does not care about nuclear risks! Stop those killing bastards!
If the money put in nuclear power science had been put into solar power science, we would have solar plants that are as profitable as nuclear ones!
Stop it, time will come and we will be blown up by ourselfes...