Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why???

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 01:15:53 EST


Em Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:43:22PM -0500, Bill Nottingham escreveu:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) said:
> > My card is a Neomagic, so I use vesafb...
> >
> > Please let me know if somebody has specs for:
> >
> > 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph
> > 128XD] (rev 01)
>
> Someone wrote a neomagic framebuffer driver at some point; ISTR
> the patch showing up on linux-kernel. Mind you, I don't know that
> it was accelerated at all...

Indeed, I've found it at
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.0/0658.html

and it seems to be accelerated, will test tomorrow and post the results.

Should be interesting to use konqueror/qt on a framebuffer console...

- Arnaldo
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