Dimitar Zhekov wrote:

DZ>> This patch changes the x11 font driver to use it's own X11 display MAF> Not sure. Do you mean the X11 driver is broken after the patch?

The X11 video driver is broken now, it works exactly as a win32 driver with no buffering would (you know what I mean). The patch changes the font driver only, separating it completely from the video driver.

OK, I will aply the patch them

But, for me, the X11 driver has only minor problems: -the inability to respond to paint events, so it must use the X11 backing-store feature, disabled by default in XFree86 4. -the slow GrPixel function. -catch the close event (like in the Win32 driver)

MAF> Or, do you plan to add backing-store capabilities to the driver?

No, it's a dead end by me. Actually, I want to see what the direct rendering is. Albeit it's present in XFree86 4.0+ only, a GRX driver based on it will work much better and faster that any Window based one.

No problem if you want to work on this, but do it a independent driver, please.

Not willing to disregard the work being done on win32, I also think that direct draw it the only correct solution for mswin. It simply does not fit to run GRX in a window, no matter the windowing platform.

Perhaps. But is good to have the window drivers. (And the Thomas aproach to the win32 driver using DIB's is promising).

Regards, Mariano.