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- let's start creating some DGA FAQ (sort of ...)
author acki2
date Thu, 17 May 2001 22:01:50 +0000
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2 Contents
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3 ~~~~~~~~
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5 1. Summary
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6 2. What is DGA
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7 3. DGA & MPlayer
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8 4. Features of DGA driver
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9 5. Speed issues
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10 6. Known bugs
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11 7. Future work
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13 A. Some modelines
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17 1. Summary
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18 ~~~~~~~~~~
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19 This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and
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20 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).
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22 2. What is DGA?
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23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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25 DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a programm to
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26 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory.
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27 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
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28 the memory range of your process. This is just allowed by the kernel
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29 if
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32 Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de) 17.5.2001
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34 To be continued...
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