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Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel



On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> > Section "Screen"
> >     Driver      "FBDev"
> >     Device      "Linux Frame Buffer Device"
> >     Monitor     "LCD Panel"
> >     DefaultColorDepth 8
> >     SubSection "Display"
> >         Depth       32
> >         Modes       "default"
> >     EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> 
> This looks a bit inconsistent; you want to use 8 bit (?), but only have a
> Display Subsection for 32...
Well, I played around a bit and tried "Depth n", n= 8,16,24,32 and it
worked with all except 24. I stayed with 32. 
 
> 
> > The Xserver seems to be rather slow. Is that expected?
> 
> Yes, it's unaccelerated. X 4.x (hint: it's in testing now! :) has a well
> accelerated driver.
That leads me back to the question for to the name of the debian package
to give to apt-get source --compile to get X4 compiled. I seem to be
unable to find that by myself. 

Cheers, Stefan

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