On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile
> > > it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported
> > > in Debian.
> >
> > Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with
> > valkyriefb.
> 
> Ah OK. So Xpmac is unsupported, but valkyrie devices are supported.

More correct: all[*] (dumb) frame buffer devices are supported by the XFree86
`fbdev' driver.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

[*] As long as your graphics chip uses a common memory layout for the pixels.
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