On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > looking at DFB's supported-hardware page > > http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main%2FSupport%2FGraphics > > i can see some of those fb modules may allow DFB to run in hw > accelerated mode, but for many of them no functionality tests on PPC > hardware were ever peformed, so i guess disabling HW acceleration tout > court for PPC was indeed the right choice for safeness. > Speaking generically, i don't know how much is safe having DFB running > in accelerated mode using fb module "X" on architecture "Y". > An extensive set of tests to detect bad X,Y couples looks dificlut to be > performed, so to be sure the end-user never runs in a bad X,Y situation, > a safe choice would be disabling hw acceleration by defalut, for all > architectures.
Understood. > >>>>Sven, looking at the PNG you posted it looks like the trashed banner > >>>>colours issue we experienced at extremadura is gone, does also the > >>>>cursor is displayed correctly (to grab both screen and pointer at DFB's > >>>>level, you can press the "PrtSc" key in the case your PPC has one) ? > >>> > >>> > >>>The pegasos uses a normal PC keyboard, so i should have this key, but in > >>>any > >>>case, indeed both these issues are gone, and the two new ones i > >>>mentioned are > >>>there (the list selection dissapearance thingy). Do you see that on x86 > >>>also ? > >> > >>Yes, i saw the vanished lines in your screenshots and i belive this may > >>be #385026, which is GTKDFB 2.8.x related and affects all HW platforms. > >>As Frans said, this is a quite annoying bug and i'll try to see if i can > >>fix it in GTKDFB 2.8.20 with a small patch (but i'm not sure it's going > >>to be an easy fix). > > > > > >Is it fixed in 2.10.x ? > > Basing on my past tests with different GTK+ 2.10 versions, it is. This would be a reason to go with gtk 2.10.x, those packages are built and uploaded to experimental, right ? So we could do a second build using the 2.10 stuff ? > >Not sure if we ever had a success with g-i on oldworld, so it is less > >important, and my prep box has a sis and a matrox, but g-i is too big to > >boot > >on it. I do have a spare matox millenium i could plug in the pegasos, and > >just > >got a xgi volari v3xt. Will test with them. nvidia is evil and should be > >boycotted anyway :) > > On my PReP 7043/140 box i experienced success in running unaccelerated > DFB applications with a Matrox card some times ago, but i never managed > to test GTKDFB applications. The problem on PReP is getting it to load the huge g-i initrd, not really running apps afterward, altough this would indicate there is a serious problem with matroxfb maybe. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
