Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Jan 2008 17:00 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Kerneltrap has an interview with the creator of project VGA. "The project aims to develop a simple, low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card available this year. Michael is also a member of the Open Graphics Project, but started Project VGA in order to get something affordable on the market as soon as possible."
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RE[2]: Programmable hardware
by WereCatf on Wed 16th Jan 2008 15:23
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RE[3]: Programmable hardware
by Earl Colby pottinger on Thu 17th Jan 2008 03:59
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Because then you are not directly working with a single frame buffer, you either end up shadowing the frame buffer in main memory and have to copy that to the separate buffers in the video cards, or your software has to figure out which card it is drawing to on the fly.
Either method has a lot of overhead.
RE[3]: Programmable hardware
by Earl Colby pottinger on Thu 17th Jan 2008 04:00
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Personally what I want/need is a large frame buffer (2560 * 2048) that feeds four monitors (each 1280 * 1024). So far I have not found such a beast and have considered ripping the Open-Graphic card and now the Project VGA to help create such a card.