<br><br>On Saturday, April 12, 2014, Stephen P. Villano <<a href="mailto:stephen.p.villano@gmail.com">stephen.p.villano@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I'm curious. I've not jet got involved with pi, so I'm *really*
curious, how *does* one do without X at all, save for old curses
days flat and single channel displays?*<br></div>
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A single opengle surface directly working on the hardware frame buffer </div><div><br></div><div>That's how xbmc on the pi does it already.</div>
<div>You start xbmc from a command line without X running. <span></span></div><div><br></div><div>Qt supports just one surface. </div><div>Problem currently is that myth uses more than one under some circumstances. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The Pi has no OpenGL hardware accelerated driver under X</div>