Re: svgatextmode and ATI rage 128 video cards

[Curt Daugaard <cld@core.com>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:21:50PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

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> > 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.
> 

Thanks for pointing out my mistake, Hans.

> -- 
> Note that I use Debian version 3.0
> Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 s?n feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> Hans Ekbrand