Peter Surda wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:16:29PM +0100, Gustavo Carvalho Homem wrote:
>
> > 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.
When did you last try the fbdev driver? It supports DGA as of 4.1.0 and I
wonder why it should be slower than the vesa driver as both use the same
shadow framebuffer.
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Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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