Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:25:37 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? Message-ID: <22350.878091937@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:22:25 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971028201924.4887B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > > > The (direct?) X extension on newer versions of xfree86 isn't so bad. > > Maybye you should take a look into it. I think it lets you use shared > > memory to directly write to the x display. I used to play quake under an > > extension like this in linux, I am sure it is standard these days. With > > the sysvshm working it wasn't at all bad. > > Yes, it is very 'standard' these days, it is the MIT-SHM extension to X11. > The only servers that I have come across that HAVEN'T supported this are He's not talking about MIT-SHM, which is only used (and useful) for very limited things, like sharing pixmap info with XShmGetPixmap() (or whatever the extention call is named - something to that effect). He's talking about the DGA extention which is *not* standard, I don't believe that Xaccel or MetroX (the only 2 non-XFree86 servers I can think of at the moment) support it. Jordan
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