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Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer



On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 07:26, 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?
> 
> Wayne

I've got the same setup.  You CAN use use the VESA fb (I recommend
vga=791 as a a kernel arg), Do NOT use the RivaFB kernel driver, this
has some pretty nasty conflicts with NVidia's (closed source, boo!) X
driver.

Cheers,

Caleb

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