Re: FrameBuffers

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote:

> Are there limitations on what king of framebuffer can be useds on Alphas ...
> in particular can I use my Voodoo3 3000 in my AS 1000A?

King of framebuffers?  Wish I had one of those!

All joking aside, there are only a few "framebuffer" drivers that work on
Alpha (that is, using the framebuffer device driver).  I just quickly
looked in the kernel docs and the only ones that I could find listed are
the Matrox and TGA framebuffer drivers (the docs may be outdated, though).

HOWEVER, this does NOT preclude you from using that card in an Alpha.  In
fact, most Voodoo3 cards are known to work in Alphas (I haven't heard of
one that doesn't yet), although we don't have an X server for them
yet in the stable tree of Debian.  You could compile one, however, if
you're so inclined to install XFree86 4.0.x.

C


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