Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer
OK, I think people are missing what I'm asking. I'm using the nvidia driver in XFree86. But, I have been doing vga=791 in lilo. So, what I was wondering...Does it hurt my setup, or is there an advantage to it?
Wayne
Caleb Shay <caleb@webninja.com> wrote ..
> 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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