Jan Ekholm a ?crit : > Can one run DirectFB with a card that doesn't have a direct driver? AFAIK You can still use vesafb with the generic software renderer, but you will lack most hardware optimizations, specialy pixel format conversions. > 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 There is an ATI driver since this time, I think. And DirectFB improves regularly. > 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. DFB must be way lighter than X. In my case, it is nearly 80MB RAM less (counting X + Xine - softdevice). CPU utilization depends on hardware acceleration, WTR MPEG2. Nothing should impact CPU in DFB per se. -- NH
