On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 07:00, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jan 02 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 02:54, Christian Groessler wrote:
> > > I cannot get X to work. The screen turns black for a few seconds an
> > > then the console returns indicating an sigsegv error (see appended
> > > X server output).
> >
> > Add Option "UseFBDev" to Section "Device".
>
> Well, I think that this is a good time for me to jump in and
> ask a ("theory") question that shows my lack of background
> regarding non-x86 platforms.
>
> In the x86 platform the xserver talks to the hardware and is
> then, able to use its capabilites (all kinds of 2d and 3d
> acceleration). But what about platforms where you have to use
> a framebuffer? Is the xserver able to use the hardware as well
> as it would in a x86?
Yes.
> I'm asking this because I have a very old mac here with an
> imstt card that took me quite a while to use the native driver
> (instead of the fbdev driver) and while it is no doubt faster
> than the fbdev, I've heard that it would be quite fast. Would
> X it be faster if I used a mach64-based ATI driver (which, I
> suppose, would be more mature)?
The ati driver won't work with the imstt card, or what are you getting
at?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
