Jonathan Belson wrote: > > >Jonathan Belson wrote: > > >> BTW, does the Matrox driver work under PowerPC? I have a spare > >> Matrox Millenium sitting in my server, which doesn't even have > >> a monitor attached... > > > >If matroxfb works, I think chances are high that the matrox driver works > >too, with Option "UseFBDev". > > Next dumb question - if I use the frame buffer device, will it use > hardare acceleration? I've used unaccelerated X servers before and > the experience was pretty painful.
First off, X 4 should be faster even without acceleration thanks to the ShadowFB layer. The fbdev driver can't provide acceleration as it's just a generic driver for framebuffer devices. The matrox driver OTOH is well accelerated, even on top of the framebuffer device. There may be some endianness etc. bugs though. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
