Quoting "Georgina O. Economou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hello all:
> >
> > I'll start with a classic: "congratulations for the great work". As
> a
> > developer of CaixaMagica, the first Portuguese Linux distribution
> I
> > would
> > like to request some informations regarding the XFree project which
> is
> > not
> > available in www.xfree.org and would be extremely useful for our
> work
> > (installing procedure for example). We guess that people in the
> other
> > distros
> > might have these knowledge but still couldn't find any related
> > resources. We
> > lack the necessary information to answer the following questions:
> >
> > i) Since framebuffer based X servers should run on every Vesa 2.0
> > compatible
> > card, where can one find a list of such cards ?
I believe any card that was manufacturated from around 1994 should be
at least vesa 1.2.
> > ii) How do we compare XF86_FBDev 3.3.6 with XFree 4.1 server using
> the
> > fbdev
> > driver which is available according the documentation found on
> > www.xfree.org ?
You may which to use the vesa driver to support also vesa 1.2 cards, or
build Xvesa, from the "TinyX" sources, for the installer.
> > Which one has better support ? What other reasoning can influence
> the
> > decision
> > ?
The vesa driver and Xvesa will run on a larger amount of computers. In some
very special cases, only fbdev servers will work. But to be really safe, you
should also think about cases where only a vga 16 colors will work, and even
some cases where only plain text modes would.
> > iii) What XFree86 drivers have XVideo extension implementation by
> now?
> > The
> > support classification in the driver status document is not
> detailed
> > engouth
> > (accelerated/non-accelerated). The XVideo extension is very
> important.
I am planning to add the interface for it. It won't make running xawtv
(or any other such program) faster, but would provide the extension.
> > Besides this one can build a list of XFree 4.1 supported cards by
> > visiting
> > every link in the driver status document, but it would be useful if
> you
> > could
> > publish a plain list just as you did for XFree 3.3.6.
> >
> > Keep up the good work
> > Best regards
> >
> > > Gustavo Homem
> >
> > --
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Fell free to reply to me in portuguese.
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