[haiku-development] Re: Video Problem
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:34:28 +0100
Gerald Zajac wrote:
> Stephan Assmus wrote:
>
> > [...] As I
> > said, a preliminary solution may be to write drivers which support mode
> > switching only. I don't know enough about writing video drivers, but I
> > suspect it's probably a lot easier than writing a driver with support
> > for even the limited amount of accelerated functions that the Be API
> > defines.
> >
> >
> From my experience with the S3 and ATI drivers, the mode switching code
> is more difficult than the accelerated drawing functions. For example,
> in the ATI driver which I'm still developing, the source file with code
> for switching the mode of the Rage128 chips is more than twice the size
> of the source file containing the accelerated drawing code. Furthermore,
> there is more code to be added for switching the mode of the Mobility
> (laptop) chips; whereas, the accelerated drawing code should be complete
> as is.
I see. Thanks for the note!
Make it a week vacation in Rostock plus food then.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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