"Sprague, IT3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, fbdev is a driver for X 4.x, so if you have /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
> and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modules/drivers/fbdev.o (or similar... I have to
> double-check that), it should work. I have no experience with setting it up
> (I've done 3.3.6's XF86_FBDev once, and that took some serious
> voodoo-fried-chicken-with-almonds hacking, using matroxfb, though.), so you
> might wanna see if there are any fbdev mages around.
Again you have saved me a lot of time with this information. I found
fbdev.o and it works now.
I have set up the old XF86_FBDev, too. Two times for two Laptops. For
a XFree-and-hardware-idiot like me this server was a good thing.
fbdev is fine. For my purposes the speed under X is o.k. and switching
between X and text console is much smoother now ... However, since I
had to alter the color-depth of the kernel fb in order to get
True-Color under X, the text-console is now as slow as a
GUI-application when it comes to scrolling. :-/
However: that is maybe not the end of the story. I was wrong as I
said:
,----[ quoted from my previous mail ]
| (BTW: evidences acumulate. As stated before I have deactivated the
| kernel fb for testing purposes. Now I'm working on X for
| several hours,
| while running two instances of X on different ttys, changing
| to and fro
| between them and the text console very often. To put even the
| processor under stress I have a compile running all the time. Well,
| the processor cooler runs all the time, but no crashes.)
`----
Now I encountered a crash (the same symptoms) with the setting
mentioned in my previous mail. That is a total crash with X with
s3virge-driver and text console *without* VESA FB.
Although there seems to be a relation: without FB in the kernel it
took much longer for my system to crash.
Well, I will use the new setting (X with fbdev) very much for a
while. Let's see if I encounter crashes too.
I assume the following: fbdev as X-driver uses only a very small part
of the functionality of my video-card (resp.: lets the kernel deal
with my video-card and the kernel uses only a small part of the
functionality). Is this assumption correct?
Well if it is and if I encounter those crashes again, then I can
conclude that not my video card was the problem[1].
I'll post here again if that happens. I hope you will give me your advice
again. :)
Thank you so far.
Footnotes:
[1] Basically my card works. This same video-card caused no problems
with XFree 3.cannotremember and it causes no problems with Windows.
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