On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:26:21 -0600 techlists@techgod.net wrote: > I have an nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400. I have compiled the nVidia drivers > and it works fine. When I had originally compiled the 2.4.17 kernel, > I had enabled the nVidia framebuffer in it. So, should I use it? Is > their a performance increase or decrease when using the framebuffer. > What are the advantages/dis-advantages to using the framebuffer? Using kernel framebuffer support can be/is entirely seperate from using XFree. Unless you tell XFree to use the framebuffer, it'll happily take over the video card and use its own drivers. You don't want to tell XFree to do that, though, trust me. But there is no reason whatsoever why you can't use kernel framebuffer support to have a nice console, and yet still use the nVidia drivers for XFree(without telling XFree to use the framebuffer). -- .--=====-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `-------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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