RE: DX server..

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Mike MacDonald wrote:
> > I'm starting to look at ShadowFB for use with DirectX..
>  There may be a
> > quick easy way to speed up a DX server using it.
> Though I don't know how
> > fast kdmurthy's server is..
>
> I am currently using it on a PII 350 - 64 MB with NT 4.0
> SP4. It is
> good. Did I mention that this server currently works only
> in full-screen
> mode? DX in fullscreen mode does not use Win16 lock on
> 95/98. So the OS does
> not come to a halt.
>
> If I get some time tomorrow, I will post the patches
> against X-consortium X
> sources. May be we can take it up from there?

I look forward to it.

>
> Mike, there is an excellent document (unfortunately not
> updated for X11R6)
> called "Strategies for Porting X v11 Sample Server". It
> is in unsupported/doc
> directory somewhere in ftp.x.org.

I have an Acrobat Reader file on writing X-server, originally
written by HP.  I need to find it and could mail it if you need it.

>
> DX supports functionality for fast blitting. Once the
> server is stable, we need
> to take DX routines and put them in ScreenRec in the
> server. So, selectively we
> override the functionality - moving slow functions to
> directly use DX calls.
>
> Regards
> KD
>