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Re: X, tin questions
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
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