On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:43:25AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 23:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > - parse the contents of /proc/fb (first reported framebuffer device only) > > so as to treat "VESA" and "OFfb" framebuffer types the same as no kernel > > framebuffer at all, since these (and possible some other) framebuffer > > types do not work with the XFree86 X server's fbdevhw interface; > > Just a minor nit, this entry is slightly misleading. The problem isn't > with the fbdevhw layer but only with Option "UseFBDev" of the chipset > specific drivers (because they need facilities of a framebuffer device > which the generic ones can't provide); the fbdev driver works perfectly > with those generic framebuffer devices.
Okay, I'll update that; thanks for the clarification. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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