Hi Peter:
>
> 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.
>
What I was really trying to ask was some comparison between the old
XF86_FBDev 3.3.6 frame buffer XServer and the new XFree 4.1 using fbdev
driver X server, i.e., a comparison between two framebuffer based XServers
and not between the solutions and specific drivers. The reason is I am
looking for the most general XServer, the one that will work with more
cards, and from what I see the Vesa 1.2 cards are not supported by any
framebuffer server, but the Vesa 2.0 ones should be.But still comes the
doubt about wich one to use. (seems to be a rule of thumb to use
framebuffer XServers in the installer, see Suse, Mandrake, Red Hat for
instance). Without further information I'd say it shoud be logical to
choose the newer release but I see all the distros using the old one.
>
> > Any other relevant comments ?
> If there is a driver for your card for Xf86, forget it.
We don't want to detect/configure the whole X for the installation neither
does the user wan't to see that, and you know that it can sometimes be
tricky.
>
> > Thank you very much
> > Gustavo Homem
> Bye,
>
Gustavo
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