> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:53:09AM +0300, Jan Ekholm wrote: > I'm using softdevice with a budget DVB-T card (Hauppauge Nova-T PCI 90002) > on a Matrox G450 on DirectFB. For some reason, the Matrox TV-out > connection > eats more CPU than VGA. The 900 MHz Intel Celeron has enough power to > deinterlace the picture. I think that something like 500 or 600 MHz would > be the minimum requirement on a Matrox card. Other cards may require more > processing power. Can one run DirectFB with a card that doesn't have a direct driver? AFAIK only Matrox cards and some Epias really work with DirectFB, others have no drivers. I fought quite a lot with DirectFB about a year and a half ago when it was investigated for another purpose, but in the end DFB didn't really work too well (and that was with a more or less supported CLE266 chip). Somehow DFB also felt a bit heavy and CPU intensive compared to using normal X11. -- Jan Ekholm jan.ekholm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
