Re: how to shut-off X and run straight through hardware
- From: stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 29 Jun 2007 20:44:22 GMT
Dances With Crows <danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
which doesn't use anything like X. I know there is a way to disable
using X and use the direct HW buffer. I am just not sure how.
Um, not quite. GUI apps use X, even when they're using XV or OpenGL
(those are both implemented as extensions to the core X protocol under
Linux). A few apps could use SVGAlib, but they were always in the
minority and JREs require X. There were a few people trying to make a
Well- yes and no. There's nothing that says that GUI applications
_have_ to use X. It is perfectly possible to write applications that
bypass X and write direct to the hardware. Afterall, X is just an application
that writes to the hardware.
However as a practical matter, finding such applications is very hard
to do. A long time back though I recall taking a very large performance
hit when transitioning from native graphics to X. That's just the
cost of generality.
I'd bet that Java doesn't do native graphics so as "Dances" says
bypassing X is not an option. But then "java" and "performance"
aren't exactly well correlated, so if you need better performance find
a non-java solution.
Stan
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