[ltp] Direct Rendering's affect on battery life?

Daniel Skorka linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:06:57 +0200


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Guarded Identity wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 1:13 pm, Daniel Skorka 
> daniel.skorka-at-stud.uni-karlsruhe.de |LinuxThinkpad| wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:12:56AM -0500, Guarded Identity wrote:
> > > I assume DRI is nice for mplayer or something... actually, I was getting
> > > by before fine without it.
> >
> > Um, no. Not for mplayer. There is an OpenGL driver, but you want to use
> > XVideo, and that does not at all depend on DRM/DRI.
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't too sure about that comment of mine.  So I guess it's fair to 
> say that I just don't need DRM/DRI at all.
> 
> What do you guys use it for anyway?

Neverball :-)

Daniel