Re: Install Sarge on Atari Falcon
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Kars de Jong wrote:
> On ma, 2006-03-20 at 12:36 +0100, Tercsi Róbert wrote:
> > Can anybody give me instructions how should I install sarge and X11 on my
> > bird. Thanks.
>
> You can't. There is no support for the builtin Atari framebuffers (which
> AFAIK use interleave bitplanes) in current versions of X11. The last
> version that supported it was XFree68 3.x.
>
> You'd have to revive this support yourself (which means reviving the ipl
> framebuffer code in X11 and make the fbdevhw driver support it).
Or implement Atari interleaved bitplanes for the shadowfb feature, which may
give better performance.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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