Sean 'Shaleh' Perry schrieb: > > Why framebuffer? - usually for every new graphic card there has to be a Linux X server developed. Framebuffer is kind of 'generic' graphic card support, at least if the card manufacturers follow the VESA VBE standard. - framebuffer devices could use the hardware better, they avoid the current video memory mapping 'concept' (I'm not a hardware wizard, please correct me, if I'm not clear here) > pentium ops are actually minimal compared to the -O2 output from egcc, plus > the > code is larger Do we have kind of a benchmark, let's say for X build with options. ... > the xserver in potato works with all supported Neomagic chips, a separate > neomagic server is no longer needed I checked http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/ today. 'neomagic' isn't in the headlines. Where shall I look?
... > the hardware detection is much larger than laptops and is being looked into > slowly You wrote in another mail: " Several groups are working on a generic hardware detection interface -- once finished any linux can use these to detect hardware." I agree. We shouldn't make our own laptop hardware detection program. But the projects I checked, didn't support certain laptop hardware detection yet. For instance, I would like to have IrDA controller, ACPI and VESA/VBE correctly detected. Of coarse the actual list is longer. - Therefore my intension is, to have some laptop people working together with a good hardware detection program. Personally I prefer the Mandrake - Lothar - Project (but this has to be researched). And an according Debian package. Cheers -werner- -- Werner Heuser | There is no time, /~~ LiLAC - Linux with Laptop Computers | ... to make war ... /~~~ Berlin, Germany | -Lou Reed- /~~~~ T. +49 30 349 53 86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
