On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:40:26AM -0500, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote: > My understanding is that there are > > (1) an mga kernel module and > (2) an mga (X) server module, also known as the mga driver. That's correct, if you're using direct rendering. You don't need a kernel module for your video hardware if you're just using good-old fashioned non-framebuffer console support and no direct rendering. > Are you saying that I shouldn't be using the stock 2.4.0-test6 kernel > module and should rather be using the kernel module from the dri project's > cvs repository? If so, then does Branden include in his debs the relevant > kernel module (either as compiled for some versions of the kernel or as > source code)? No, the Linux kernel modules are not maintained by XFree86 as far as I know. (One exception is the agpgart module for kernel 2.2; but that's not a video driver per se.) > Or are you saying that Branden's server module, the mga driver mga_drv, is > inconsistent with the rest of the patched XFree 4.0.1 that Branden > distributes in his latest debs. It sounds like that is what happened. Sorry, I guess tracking XFree86 CVS has its drawbacks as well. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck; branden@debian.org | more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck;umount;sleep http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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