Re: [linux-fbdev] and Neomagic...

2000-03-05 Thread Andreas Beck
Neomagic card on a Notebook? AFAIK there is no KGI driver for the neomagic, One would have to write a driver for KGIcon to run on the neomagic. Is information on the neomagic available by now, or are they still "protecting" their design flaws ;-) ? Funny... It seems someone else

Re: [linux-fbdev] and Neomagic...

2000-03-05 Thread Thomas Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK there is no KGI driver for the neomagic, but it is known to work with the generic vesafb driver in the kernel. Note, that this driver has severe limitations like not being able to change the mode it is running in, but allows to use many cards that

Re: [linux-fbdev] and Neomagic...

2000-03-05 Thread Andreas Beck
Note, that this driver has severe limitations like not being able to change the mode it is running in, but allows to use many cards that implement the most important stuff of VESA 2.0 Thank you for the hint. Does 'severe limitations' mean still good enough to do development on?? Well -

Re: [linux-fbdev] and Neomagic...

2000-03-04 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas wrote previously: is it possible to use kgicon / fbdev together with the Neomagic card on a Notebook? AFAIK there is no KGI driver for the neomagic, but it is known to work with the generic vesafb driver in the kernel. One would