On 4/26/05, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip]
Good research. > Now, for all three, usefulness can be questioned: > > 1) Who needs vesafb when we have ogpfb? Completeness and backward compatibility. It doesn't hurt to have an extra interface. > 2) Who needs "-vo vesa" when we have "-vo ogp"? > 3) Why bother with VBE/DCC when the OGP driver could provide the EDID > info "natively"? > > As to 3, I don't suppose X would object to not going through VBE/DDC but > Windows might be an argument -- I have no idea what it requires. Pretty much the same answer for all. In order to live up to our "just works" promise, we have to have something there to work when our driver isn't. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
