Re: Questions about framebuffers and X (was: Re: XFree doesn't work (B&W Mac G3 - Ati r128))
On Jan 02 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 07:00, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > In the x86 platform the xserver talks to the hardware and is
> > then, able to use its capabilites (all kinds of 2d and 3d
> > acceleration). But what about platforms where you have to use
> > a framebuffer? Is the xserver able to use the hardware as well
> > as it would in a x86?
>
> Yes.
That's nice to know. Thanks.
(...)
> The ati driver won't work with the imstt card, or what are you getting
> at?
Yes, I meant that I could possibly get an ATI card, but if it
were not better than this current imstt, then there would be
no point in that.
Does the ATI driver from GATOS works on powerpc? I'd like to
be able to watch movies with mplayer... :-)
In fact, I was very excited to see that mplayer even compiled
and played movies on PPC. :-) I guess that with a current
computer, it would play them smoothly, without frame drops.
:-)
Thank you for your comments, Roger...
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