>
> I apologise for continuing the GGI thread, but...
>
> Could someone (Geert?) outline the main conceptual and actual differences
> between fbdev and KGI?
Essentially none. KGI and fbdev both provide frame buffers for user-level
apps; the primary difference is kgi uses drivers specific to the video
chipset while fbdev uses a generic driver that will, for example create a
640x480x16color video console on systems that don't have a text mode. The
bad thing is that I don't think that fbdev will know how to talk to every
single video adapter out there without chipset drivers.
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