Re: Debian ARM package xserver-common
Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[🔎] 20000329040007.E2979@ecn.purdue.edu>, Branden Robinson writes:
> >On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:29:55PM -0600, Jim Studt wrote:
> >> xf86config is not built because no servers in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86
> >> are built. Our fbdev server is built out of xfree68.
> >
> >Ah. Well, if ARM uses only the fbdev server, there's no point trying to
> >use xf86config anyway.
>
> The SVGA server is also applicable to ARM. Even if it's not being built as
> part of the package right now I don't think we should do anything that would
> rule it out.
Excuse any ignorance which this question implies, but...
What would be wrong with being an fb-only arch on Debian? I use accelerated Xfb
on my PowerMac clone at home (StarMax 3000) with atyfb, and it's quite snappy-
much faster than unaccelerated Xfb. Would an SVGA server be faster still, or
the Mach64 server?
Now than the framebuffer works well in 2.3.99-rmk1, why not take the relatively
simple step of accelerating Xfb for cyber2000? Or are the modifications to
X-SVGA just as simple? Or does XFree86-4.0 obsolete all of this somehow?
Again, to whomever was involved, thanks very very much for the working
framebuffer! The Netwinder is now my primary desktop machine, after sitting
relatively idle for quite a while.
Zeen,
-Adam P.
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