From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
ee21rh@surrey.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: DRI (was Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:05:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107032714.24676.48.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41FBF8A0.6000708@comcast.net>
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 15:57 -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>
> >* Lee Revell (rlrevell@joe-job.com) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Stupid question: what the heck does OO use DRI for? I googled and came
> >>up empty.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It does pointless 3D objects in its drawing package.
> >
> >
> Another stupid question :)
> Does it mean DRI is only used for doing 3D? How about normal, 2D stuff?
> I thought X uses DRI for both 2D and 3D if it is available...
>
No, XAA is normally used for 2D acceleration. This is hardware
accelerated but doesn't use DRI, X does 2D accel by talking directly to
the hardware without the kernel's involvement.
This is an area where the proprietary guys are a little ahead but there
are some interesting developments like the Xgl server.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-29 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-22 16:56 [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error Martin J. Bligh
2005-01-22 17:33 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-01-23 2:05 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2005-01-23 9:31 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-01-23 2:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-23 12:22 ` Martin Josefsson
2005-01-26 21:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-27 3:14 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-01-27 17:54 ` Trever L. Adams
2005-01-27 23:49 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-01-28 2:38 ` Trever L. Adams
2005-01-28 17:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-28 23:11 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-01-28 23:21 ` Lee Revell
[not found] ` <41FACEC5.6070703@comcast.net>
2005-01-28 23:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-29 10:44 ` Richard Hughes
2005-01-29 12:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-01-29 12:49 ` OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card* Richard Hughes
2005-01-29 13:02 ` Richard Hughes
2005-01-29 17:40 ` Alessandro Suardi
2005-01-29 19:25 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-29 19:57 ` Trever L. Adams
2005-01-31 2:34 ` Trever L. Adams
2005-01-29 20:36 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-29 20:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-01-29 20:48 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-29 20:57 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-01-29 21:05 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-01-29 23:16 ` DRI (was Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*) Dave Airlie
2005-01-29 20:40 ` OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card* Gene Heskett
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