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Re: XFree86 display drivers
- To: "Chris Faylor" <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: XFree86 display drivers
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:41:56 -0400
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- References: <00ac01bea7a4$8f8d4d70$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> <19990527121615.B918@cygnus.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: XFree86 display drivers
> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:21:23PM -0400, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
> >Following is a suggestion from Jan Rouvillain:
> >
> >-----
> >Do we really need the SVGA S3 server and so on. I mean, that Windows 9X/NT
> >already have a SVGA driver running. Furthermore, I think we will get in
> >serious problems if two display drivers are competing for the graphic
> >ressource. Only one driver can run, because only one driver can receive the
> >interrupts from the graphic card.
> >---------
> >
> >Before we start writing or hacking display driver codes in CFree86, I would like to hear
> >opinions from other users on how to handle this.
>
> DirectX/DirectDraw (or whatever they're called) seems like the only way to do this.
>
Thanks, I am looking into it too. It is only list of TO DO for Cygwin-Xfree.
--SMS
> -chris
>