Alex Holden wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Adam 'WeirdArms' Wiggins wrote:
> > What about the NeoMagic 2160 chipset the Toshiba portege laptops
> > use? They seems like a very nice chipset and have X servers with Source.
>
> You really want one with a framebuffer driver if possible; an accelerated
> X server is secondary (since you can run X (or Nano-X ;) on a framebuffer
> if you want, but not use an X server to drive an ordinary text console).
>
When you refer to a "framebuffer driver" is this a driver that draws
using
direct access to video memory in a packed pixel manner?
If so, I am very surprised. I assummed that the various drivers for PC
chipsets were using the chipset higher level functions for their
respective
chip types.
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