Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jan 1999 02:53:22 +0200 (EET) | From | T Taneli Vahakangas <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3 |
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If you hear strange jitter when playing music with ALSA and are using the > > combination of matroxfb and XFree86, just try to get rid of matroxfb (it > > worked for me, I have a Mystique 220) > > > > Anyone else have/had this problem? Or wants to know more -- my address is > > below. > > You cannot and should not mix XFree86 servers (except the frame buffer > console server) with the kernel frame buffer driver. Period. > > Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes strange things occur. > It is not a supported combination. Both X and the kernel wish to be the sole > owner of the video driver unless you use the X fbcon server
Ok. But it sounds stupid.
Maybe matroxfb should be fixed to work better with XFree -- after all plain text console and 2.1.127 version of matroxfb work perfectly for my purposes. Maybe I should take a look at matroxfb diffs and try to do it myself ... or is this something not easily accomplished?
Happy new year!
Taneli <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi>
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