Vesa

Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de
Sun Feb 4 05:56:42 PST 2007


Hi,

On Sunday 04 February 2007 14:18:01 Russell Shaw wrote:
> Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > On 2/4/07, Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Where can i get the "vesa" standards free? Or do i have to buy'em?
> >> I'm interested in understanding and improving X video drivers.
> > 
> > There should be a pdf of vesa vbe 3.0 available on the net. But don't
> > expect to improve things using vesa, AFAIK vesa is a very limited
> > standard with almost no acceleration for any interesting things.
> > It's more a legacy things that let you set video mode and draw
> > everythings using CPU and memcpying to the video card.
> 
> Hi,
> Are there any standards for a hardware accelerated graphics driver
> api for 2D on current graphics cards?

No.

> I'm interested in decent performance on low-end embedded hardware,
> such as X terminals. With decent programming, simple graphics
> hardware can be very useable.

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