Re: FBDev crashes
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Andrew B. Arthur wrote:
> Andre Berger wrote:
>
> > (**) FBDev: Using XF86Config video mode database
> > (--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: OFfb chips65550
^^^^^^^^^^
> > (--) FBDev: Video memory: 975K @ 0x81800200
> > (--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 0K @ (nil)
> > (--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 16
> > (--) FBDev: Hardware accelerator: None
> > (--) FBDev: No driver support for hardware acceleration
> > bpp = 16, depth = 15, BitsPerRGB = 5
> > (--) FBDev: Using cfb16 driver
>
> Another thing to point out, is that XFBDev is really, really slow using
> No Video Driver checked (as shown above with Hardware accelerator:None),
> you would be much better off either unchecking no video driver (which
> might cause problems on your machine with video) or using Xpmac with the
> -mach64 flag (or whatever neccessary flag for your video card is).
^^^^^^^
> Xpmac acceleration is independent of the Frame Buffer, so it works with
> No Video Driver checked.
chips65550 != mach64
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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