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 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).

2. What is DGA?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a programm to
 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. 
 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
 the memory range of your process. This is just allowed by the kernel
 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in 
 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable.

 There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.X.X and DGA2 was 
 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.

 DGA1 just provides direct framebuffer access as described above. For 

860:edc6758694ed

 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).

2. What is DGA?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a mean for a program to
 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. 
 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
 the memory range of your process. This is just allowed by the kernel
 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in 
 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer executable.

 There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.X.X and DGA2 was 
 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.

 DGA1 just provides direct framebuffer access as described above. For