Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:51:18 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > > seems to work. X is fine without matrox acceleration. Now, whose fault
> > > is it? Is the matrox G100/200 acceleration driver messing in an
> > > improper way or does XFree86 lack some initialisation.
> >
> > XFree is designed to work with text mode consoles. So either use the
> > XFree binary for the frame buffer console, or the text mode console and
> > the XFree for G200
> >
> > Alan
>
> My 4Mb Millenium (not II) FB Console works with both XFree SVGA
> and FBdev at 1152x900 :) no screen restoration problem whatsoever,
> excluding SVGA lib and SVGATextmode utility...
That's what they call good luck.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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