On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:11:37AM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:28:25AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:11:15PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote: > > > Has anyone on the list had any luck in configuring svgatextmode with > > > a video cards in the ATI Rage 128 series? I recently changed from > > > an S3 card to the 128 Pro but can't figure out what settings to use > > > now. I'd hate to part with the higher resolutions. (I can't find > > > anything decent in the alternate kernel video modes.) > > > > What do you mean by the last sentence? With frambuffers you have > > complete controll over the video modes. See the section: > > > > "6. Converting XFree86 timing values info frame buffer device timings" > > > > in /usr/src/kernel-source<x.y.z>/Documentation/fb/framebuffers.txt > > Sorry I wasn't clearer. I don't want to give up accelerated video > under X which I would have to do if I go the fb route, as I > understand it. But maybe I'm missing something. If you think that using framebuffers for the console would somehow make your (non FB) X-server to be unaccelerated, then yes I think you have missunderstood something. FB can substitute SVGATextMode, and as long as you don't use it as X-server you will still have accelerated X. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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