On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:16:00PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: <snip> > I know. I have X4 right now and it works if I boot in "vga" mode. I > started looking at the framebuffer stuff when I tried to run quake. > (See below for more details.) Actually by "only driver I can use" I > really meant "only _framebuffer_ driver I can use". > > | Now if someone can help me get more than 10 fps on a voodoo2 in Quake 3 > | I'll be happy! > > What sort of client are you running? (I don't really know much about <snip>
Q3 only uses X with DGA and DRI. The only option. > > The other advantages of using the framebuffer is I get the cool Tux > logo during bootup and I get awesome screen real estate for mutt or > other console stuff. The downside is I want 1024x768 for console (so > the text is big enough) but 1280x1024 in X (so I get lots of space). > > Supposedly X is able to provide hardware acceleration on top of the > framebuffer (and the framebuffer docs say that apps should be able to) > but I haven't gotten it to work with my card yet. > > -D > > -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix