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Between Fedora 12 and 13Between Fedora 12 and 13Posted Dec 1, 2009 8:29 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964)In reply to: Between Fedora 12 and 13 by drag Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13
> Video cards no longer support 2D acceleration in any way shape or manner.
> No 2D engines. On the newest ATI cards it's only done through firmware > emulation, and that will end pretty quickly in itself once ATI stops > having to give a shit about XP support.
> All 'acceleration' will actually be done through the '3D pipelines' which
But Windows 7 has as a new feature, 2D acceleration for GDI graphics like XP. That'll have to be supported for a while you know. They have now implemented a new accelerated framework for drawing text, and plan to add support for accelerated text into IE9 to improve scrolling.
Why can't a generalised GPU accelerate 2D? In general lusers don't give a monkeys if it's done in pure hardware or hardware + software; it just needs to do the drawing primitives fast, and offload stuff from main memory. The 3D solutions today, basically are hardware + software in the cards so accelerating 2D ought to be very doable.
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Between Fedora 12 and 13 Posted Dec 1, 2009 17:59 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Your right, of course.
Modern (or at least future) video cards accelerate 2D operations through the
What I was merely talking about is the 2D processor engines that you
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