Re: [pygame] SDL 2.0

[geneb <geneb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, René Dudfield wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:25 PM, geneb <geneb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Does the OpenGL ES support mean that it will work properly on the
> > Raspberry Pi?
> >
> > tnx!
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, it does work with raspberrypi.
>
> There are some people working on better SDL2 support for raspberrypi in
> this issue:
>    http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2005
>
> That should let you use Directfb, rather than needing X11.  At some point
> there should be support for using the dedicated video scaling hardware,
> which is the fast path for 2D graphics on the raspberrypi.  Whereas the
> OpenGL ES is the slower hardware when doing just 2D graphics on the pi.

Excellent news, thanks!  I was hoping to avoid X11 as well - I want to use 
the Raspberry Pi as a dedicated MPCD/MFD controller for my flight sim 
projects and being able to skip X11 would be nice.

tnx!

g.


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