From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 28 18:26:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11464 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA11458 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:26:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA22353; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:25:37 -0800 (PST) To: "David E. Cross" cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:22:25 EST." Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:25:37 -0800 Message-ID: <22350.878091937@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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