scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> FWIW my pi music player runs in 1920x1080x32bpp very nicely. I put it 
> down to Linux trying to do far too much stuff in the background that is 
> unnecessary for a simple music player on a pi.

Drawing efficiently at those resolutions requires hardware support,
which means that the OS requires optimized graphic drivers for the
particular hardware.

If one OS is drawing fast and another isn't, that tells me that there
is no proper graphics driver for the latter. (Just try disabling or
uninstalling the graphics drivers on a typical Linux PC and see how
amazingly sluggish it becomes.) I don't think Linux does anything
particularly heavy otherwise.

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                                                          - Warp

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