On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:23:01PM +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > > what about matrox? i have a couple of second hand 16mb g400's. maybe > mesa3d can run on it standalone after a couple of months of hacking? >
I have used dri without X on my radeon 7500 card using miniglx. I was using glut which for miniglx does not have input support. I have also used mesa3d with software rendering without X using matrox, nvidia, radeon, and vesa framebuffer drivers. Try building mesa for linux-fbdev. I use it without problems on both heads of my g450 (even run 2 opengl apps at the same time). It is of course only software rendering. If you want to spend a couple months of hacking, I think the best thing is to look into developing EGL. EGL sounds like a really cool idea that hasn't gotten enough attention. With EGL it would be possible to finally get the hardware out of X, and not run X as root. Then X would just send opengl commands to EGL to render everything (correct me if I'm wrong) or standalone applications could be run that use hardware rendering without using X. Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
