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1 lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library | |
2 ======================================= | |
3 | |
4 This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different | |
5 OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent. | |
6 | |
7 The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace | |
8 video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving). | |
9 | |
10 For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported | |
11 as working' list (these platforms are used daily): | |
12 Linux/x86 | |
13 FreeBSD/x86 | |
14 NetBSD/x86 | |
15 Linux/PPC | |
16 | |
17 There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that. | |
18 With root privileges libdha will run fine, but there are some others ways | |
19 to use it as a normal user: | |
20 1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root privileges) | |
21 2, use svgalib kernel helper | |
22 3, use dhahelper (not yet finished) | |
23 | |
24 The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project) | |
25 sources. | |
26 | |
27 Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi. | |
28 Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi. | |
29 Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av. | |
30 (for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer) |