Re: X, tin questions

[is%beverly.rhein.de@localhost (Ignatios Souvatzis)]

Hi Al,

> I am not clear as to what it means "that the frame buffer is only
> accessible partially
> at each given time."
> This sounds a little bit like a problem associated with the
> "Shapeshifter" driver for the
> RZ2 board. In this problem the issue appeared to be the fact that the
> memory space
> to the RZ2 board was accessible in 64K chunks as such took an inordinate
> amount
> of time to refresh.
> 
> Someone wrote a driver for the RZ2 board that remapped the RZ2 4M memory
> space to
> someplace well above the normal memory space for a conventional machine.
> 
> The driver is called MapRZ2. Would a similar technique work for an X11R6
> driver.

Yes... if the technique used is made public. Can you contact its author
and ask?

        -is