Subject: Re: Mach64 vs FBDev
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Oct 09 1999 - 19:57:29 MDT
I am not sure what problem you stumbled upon, but you should try Dan's
suggestion. I can tell you with certainty that the frame buffer server
can work fine with the 99 PowerBooks. There have been differing opinions,
but personally, I was not impressed with the Xpmac server. Furthermore,
with the 2.2.12 kernel, which is technically "experimental" for the moment
you can get hardware acceleration out of the frame buffer server; I am
using it at the moment. You were selecting the "No Video Driver" option
with no video kernel arguments while using FBDev?
Jim
frame's bits of Sat, 9 Oct 1999 translated to:
> Thanks a million Aaron!
>
> I've been looking for something that would offer acceleration with the ATI
> card, from the sound of it, this is it.
>
> I do have a question about your particular setup though, do you have the
> framebuffer support compiled into your kernel? I do and was thinking of
> removing it.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Greg
>
> Aaron Levitt wrote:
>
> > If FBDev isn't working for you.. you should try Xpmac. This is the
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