Hi Rene,

I tried running Squeak via FB on a Linux system (a 3.6 Image, kernel 
2.4 I believe) a while back; speed comparisons indicated that the 
interface was a little too languid to be usable.

For fluid operation in Morphic, X11's acceleration was too useful to 
abandon. Additionally, there was the mouse issue: sluggish and 
interrupted when running via FB (using the gpm driver?), real-time and 
responsive in X. Not hard to see why I made the choice to retire from 
the FB world. I'll add as a sidenote, however, that the hardware in 
question was pretty old.

So to answer your question - yes, Squeak can use FB. 'Acceleration', 
I'm not so sure about....

Hope that helps, and isn't too anecdotal.

Warm regards,
Marc

On 18 Apr 2005, at 23:35, Rene Pavlik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> anyone heard about Squeak running on DirectFB (Direct Framebuffer)?
>
> I'm looking for such VM that can use DirectFB for acceleration of 
> Squeak graphics.
> Does it exist?
>
> Thanks lot.
>
> -- Rene