I'm looking to set up a computing lab for our local scout group with 15 raspberry pi workstations, and this would really help make them a lot more usable for web browsing.
X Hardware Acceleration Driver Status
Does anyone know the current state of development for the hardware accelerated X window drivers? Are there any developers who have publicly announced they are working on them?
I'm looking to set up a computing lab for our local scout group with 15 raspberry pi workstations, and this would really help make them a lot more usable for web browsing.
I'm looking to set up a computing lab for our local scout group with 15 raspberry pi workstations, and this would really help make them a lot more usable for web browsing.
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Re: X Hardware Acceleration Driver Status
Here's the primary thread where X hardware acceleration is being discussed. The last page of posts includes links to on-line repositories for very pre-alpha code that is functionally incomplete and what is there may need debugging:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... =63&t=4649
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... =63&t=4649
The best things in life aren't things ... but, a Pi comes pretty darned close! 
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- W.B. Yeats
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- W.B. Yeats
In theory, theory & practice are the same - in practice, they aren't!!!
Re: X Hardware Acceleration Driver Status
There is also a work on DirectFB (http://directfb.org/):paulmuk wrote:Does anyone know the current state of development for the hardware accelerated X window drivers? Are there any developers who have publicly announced they are working on them?
I'm looking to set up a computing lab for our local scout group with 15 raspberry pi workstations, and this would really help make them a lot more usable for web browsing.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3//view ... 53&t=16020
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 31&t=11772
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... f=9&t=1882
https://plus.google.com/109054407220184 ... GEHcHazRow
Wayland would of course be very exciting to have running on the Raspberry Pi:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 53&t=15376
So there is lots of activity going on.
Re: X Hardware Acceleration Driver Status
Thanks for the links guys - I'll take a look!