Re: XFree86 4.1.0 r128 driver compilation

To: David Zhou <dzhou@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>, <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 r128 driver compilation
From: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:12:14 +0200 (CEST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.33.0110241710110.21007-100000@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.GSO.4.21.0110231958160.4176-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>

> > The fbdev OTOH is completely unaccelerated.
>
> The fbdev? I am confused. Is this fbdev the same as the UseFBdev with the
> r128 driver?

Nope, it's as Michel said: the fbdev driver (X server speak) just dumps
pixels to the framebuffer, totally unaccelerated. The UseFBDev option
makes the X server use the kernel framebuffer device interface for things
like mode setting and colormaps.

	Michael

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