Jason E. Stewart wrote:
Having struggled quite a bit with getting video working on the external video of the pismo, I have been wondering a lot about all the different video drivers and what their relation is to one another. If someone in the know could give a brief description, or point me to some docs about the video kernel drivers
linux/Documentation/fb/
and what relation they have to the XF86 video drivers, I'd be more enlightened. Things like "Option" "UseFBDev" confuse the heck out of me...
Short story: With this option, the XFree86 driver uses the framebuffer devices' interface via /dev/fb* . Otherwise, they're mostly independent.
Just ask back if you want to know more. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member