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diff --git a/x11/libXxf86dga/pkg-descr b/x11/libXxf86dga/pkg-descr index 9697dca7a295..661b795ec2de 100644 --- a/x11/libXxf86dga/pkg-descr +++ b/x11/libXxf86dga/pkg-descr @@ -1 +1,9 @@ -This package contains the XKB file library. +The XFree86-DGA extension is an X server extension for allowing client +programs direct access to the video frame buffer. + +XFree86-DGA is not intended as a direct rendering API, but rather, as a +mechanism to "get the X Server out of the way" so that some other +direct rendering API can have full access to the hardware. With this +in mind, DGA does provide clients some direct access to the hardware +without requiring a separate rendering API, but this access is limited +to direct linear framebuffer access. |