[cairo] cairo with open GL backend

guhan senthilkumar guhan.senthilkumar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 04:54:58 PST 2010


Oh like that. Ok Ok.. :)
I have driver support for my GPU..

Do you have a working example with openGL backed.??
Or just please help me get started with writing the most simplest of
applications with cairo and openGL backend. :) :)

Thanks,
Guhan

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Alexandros Frantzis <
alexandros.frantzis at linaro.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 06:04:05PM +0530, guhan senthilkumar wrote:
> > Thanks a lot.Hey but what do you mean by "if your OpenGL is HW
> accelerated
> > then the drawing will be too??" . I thought any rendering done by OpenGL
> is
> > hardware accelerated. Is my assumption wrong??
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Guhan.
> >
>
> The GL API is hardware accelerated only if there is driver support for
> your GPU.
>
> The GL API can also be implemented using software (CPU) only. For
> example, the Mesa library does this when using the "software rasterizer".
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandros
>
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