On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:16:29PM +0100, Gustavo Carvalho Homem wrote:
> Hello all:
hi.
> One thing I can't find in the documentation. Are there advantages (or
> disadvantages) of using XF86_FBDev over XFree86 4.1 with fbdev driver ?
I only see an advantage for situations where Xserver is missing for your card
but there is a fbdev driver for kernel. If there is no fbdev driver for the
card for the kernel, it is better to use Xfree's vesa driver, because it is
slightly faster than vesafb+fbdev and also can do DGA.
In the past using vesa was necessary to use TVOut on ATI cards, however I was
able to get r128's tvout working and am on my way to get rid of the small bugs
and support mach64 and radeon.
> Any other relevant comments ?
If there is a driver for your card for Xf86, forget it.
> Thank you very much
> Gustavo Homem
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