Claudio Ciccani wrote: > Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: >> Hi >> >> Here i have a, pherhaps naif, question about gfxdrivers and the settings >> of the diretfbrc file. >> Currently we ship debian-installer images with the only vesafb >> framebuffer builtin in (i386/amd64 kernels), while powerpc kernels have >> the full suite of fb drivers builtin. >> However, in order to save some disk space, our installation images >> contain no directfb gfxdrivers except the matrox one. >> Given the above configuration, i'm wondering if in the directfbrc file: >> >> 1) adding or removing the "no-hardware" configuration string actually >> has any effect at all > > The only effect is to disable hardware acceleration with matrox cards > (but, why would you want to do that?...).
Well, hw acceleration is not strictly needed in the g-i case as it consists in a rather statical GTK interface which asks some questions during the installation process. Morover, i see a few people today has a matrox board installed on their pc, so i'm also wondering about the benfits of keeping the matrox accelerator in the installatio ISOs, where every KB of space is a precious rsource... >> 2) adding or removing the "disable-modules=radeon" configuration string >> actually has any effect at all > > No effect if the radeon driver is not installed. Thank you very much for your answers, this will help us to simplify the booting process of the g-i a lot. regards Attilio _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list directfb-users@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
