Re: DRI integration

Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Organization Debian, XFree86
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 01:09, Keith Packard wrote: 
> 
> GL as hardware rendering abstraction is fine, but we still need some way to
> configure the hardware underneath GL, selecting video modes, handling power
> management, etc.  I think that belongs in a kernel driver that integrates
> the functionality of fbdev and DRI, but doesn't force the user to adopt a
> frame buffer based console driver as well.

FWIW, with Linux 2.6 kernels, framebuffer devices can be used without
fbcon.


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