On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Fabio Alemagna wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Brian S. Julin wrote: > > Stupid question from an outsider: couldn't it be possible to make the > application still run by making it use an offscreen buffer while not > "visible" because of VT switching? It would be really annoying, imho, if > the application stopped altogether...
Yeah, nice... My 32 MB Matrox deals with 4 devices, which means you need 4x32 MB = 128 MB offscreen for that one alone. Glad I don't own a 128 MB ATI 9700 ... my box got only 256 MB... And now serious: Nice idea, but doesn't work. As you can see above, fake framebuffers are no good but for text modes. If we really want to make a chance to make it in any kernel, we should come up with something better. Jos
