Hi !
> I am curious what the status of harware accelerated 2D graphics
> on GGI is.
IMHO we should cosider rewriting LibGGI2D and find a maintainer for it that
will try to get it up to speed with respect to acceleration.
This isn't a very complex job, but a time consuming one. When it comes to
algorithms, kernel interfaces and similar matters I am sure there are enough
people her on the list like me, Marcus, Jon, etc. pp. that will gladly help.
So anyone here to do that ?
> I started some work a year ago on adding transparent
> blitting, but then became buried in other work. I do have some
> code that uses to direct buffer access to do a transparent blit,
> and I could probably roll it into GGI, but hesitate to dive in
> if the work has already been done.
That is another issue, and I do have code for "LibGBL" (generic blitting)
that handles this. I am looking forward to discussing this with Marcus when
we prepare a new LibGGI release, so that we can then quickly proceed after-
wards and add HW acceleration to it.
> The reason I ask is that I have a cross platform video game
> engine I am about to release as open source, but it is
> currently working with an old version of GGI.
Hmm - probably the current version won't be much different. Maybe the
DirectBuffer Acquire stuff.
> And from the Frequenly Rehashed Topics department... what is
> the best recommended video card to use with GGI (and linux in
> general). I would like it to support 2D and 3D acceleration
> on linux, have a bunch of on-board ram, and not require a
> mortgage to purchase. :-)
Hmm - the only ones I can recommend from experience are the Permedia 2 (which
will need some work on my side to get good acceleration in the 3D Area) and
the G400.
CU, ANdy
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