Hello Michel:
Thank you very much for your answeer. So from what I read from you I
would say that for an installer it would be better to use the old
XF86_FBDev since one does not need in this case to use the new fancy
features and from your words we get the impressions that the old one could
even run on some exotic video cards, right ?
Thanks again
Gustavo
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] D�nzer wrote:
> 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 ? Any
> > other relevant comments ?
>
> The big disadvantage is that XF86_FBDev is ooold and lacks a lot of features
> like shadow framebuffer, RENDER extension, ...
>
> The only possible advantages I see are for exotic cases like 1 or 4 bit depth
> which might be broken in the 4.x fbdev driver (but should be easy to fix) and
> that maybe XF86_FBDev offers some acceleration for some chipsets, but I'm not
> even sure there.
>
>
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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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