Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:36:36 +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 Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Dirk H Hohndel wrote: > > > > 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... > > I've a fbdev-aware XF86_SVGA Server up and running. fbdev integrated as > "chipset". No vga register i/o needed. Runs accelerated on top of > matroxfb, even if the board is installed as secondary display.
THAT's the way to go. I'd like to see patches for that...
> Initializing the matrox acceleration code needs only 10 lines of code > (fill one variable with the PCI-ID and mmap() the mmio-space). I was > surprised that it was _that_ simple....
:-)
Dirk
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