Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 05:35:16 +0100 (MET) | From | Dirk H Hohndel <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3 |
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On 3 Jan 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > Linus> XF86_FBDev is something that should be considered at most to be > Linus> a "least common denominator" kind of thing, the way XF86_VGA16 > Linus> is for people who have cards that don't have any real server > Linus> for them. It should be recognized as being just a stopgap > Linus> measure for when there isn't a native driver available. > > This is wrong, what needs to be done is to make the FBDev server > acceleration aware for all the other cards. In fact I think it > shouldn't be all that hard to merge the SVGA acceleration modules into > the FBDev server - all it takes is someone with the interest, hardware > and time to do it.
Sorry, this is the wrong direction. Don't start to manage two copies of the same code.
> FBDev is designed to do things the right way, ie. use acceleration > when it is available (in user space of course!) or just run > non-accelerated when no acceleration is available. It is very similar > to the concept of the SVGA server I'd say except for letting the > kernel deal with mode-switching.
And therefore the standard XFree86 server (as of 4.0) should be made fbdev aware. Don't try to move all the 3.x acceleration stuff into yet another server. That's a waste of time...
Dirk
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