Re: [SLUG] Banshee card and xfree86 4.0.3

From: Glen Canaday (tuck@acer-access.com)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 21:27:38 EDT


Well, they still don't play nice with X, lol.

> > Sounds like you are using the framebuffer driver in the kernel. This is
> > bad, as those things tend to get flakey with X and vice versa. When X is
> > running, it'll screw up the console display and sometimes they won't fix
> > after X is killed. I follow Paul Foster's credo concerning framebuffer
> > drivers: don't use them.
>
> I haven't checked out a framebuffer server in a year or two. My
> experience at the time was that it was buggy and didn't take advantage
> of the standard character set available on all PCs and monitors. That
> made it slower, and it required adjustment not normally necessary on
> PCs. Has that changed in the last couple of years? I dunno, since I
> haven't looked.
>

> Linux is a beautiful thing.
>
> Paul

Aye, aye, Cap'n. That's why we're here.

        Glen



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