Star Making the Case for XFree86's Speed
Linked by Guillaume Maillard on Thu 10th Oct 2002 05:44 UTC
X11, Window Managers Being a BeOS user (a purely desktop system) and because I code under Linux, I see XFree86 (v4.1 on my machine) as a user and as a developper. And this is where the problem lies. My Gnome or KDE desktops are slow in comparison with other operating systems, but XFree86, the 'engine' behind these desktops, proves me that it's not. Let's look at what I have in front of me: a dual Pentium III at 933Mhz with 512MB of memory, a Radeon 32 AIW, a modified Mandrake 8.0 powered by kernel 2.4.18.
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re. fbDRI
by johnG on Thu 10th Oct 2002 15:12 UTC

Hmm... can't find the mailing list for fbDRI.

Also, the homepage mentions this:
The dri source code documentation, except for the Jens Owen parts, is pretty bad, with many indirections making it hard to follow. Most of the indirections should be eliminated in FB dri and a monolithic libglfb.so binary created for each card.

After downloading and unpacking, I found that the doc directory only contained a mirror of the homepage. There's also a Readme containing a couple of email addresses and phone numbers.

Looks like it hasn't been touched since August 2001. [shrug]