Re: Why not use the FB?

[Svetoslav S. <ga...@st...>]

Quoting Adam Hunt <ada...@gm...>:

> I'm currious if there is any reason that a person would not want to use
> the
> framebuffer and the fbdev xserver on a typical desktop machine.  Are
> there
> any drawbacks to X via the framebuffer (other then maybe less cards
> are
> supported currently)?

there is no card specific acceleration, it's pretty slower,
no XVideo support, and i think no DRI support


svetljo