From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@relog•ch>
To: Ryuichi Oikawa <roikawa@rr•iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: gewrgiou@imbc•gr, linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:02:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39072136.6A4B340A@relog.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000427015351E.roikawa@rr.iij4u.or.jp
Ryuichi Oikawa wrote:
> BTW, why do people like fbdev very much?
- one can use the generic fbdev driver if the dedicated driver doesn't work
- if the dedicated driver supports fbdev, access to the hardware is
coordinated between all virtual terminals
- ...
> It's easier to port XFree86 built-in drivers as Kostas mentioned before, and > has advantages that developers can port/update the server independent on the
> kernel, add support the latest hardware without waiting for the kernel
> driver, etc.
Use of the fbdev support is optional.
Michel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-26 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-24 6:16 XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-25 11:23 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-25 9:27 ` W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-25 16:51 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-25 18:30 ` W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-26 12:26 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 13:54 ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-26 14:16 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 16:53 ` Ryuichi Oikawa
2000-04-26 17:02 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2000-04-28 16:37 ` Ryuichi Oikawa
2000-04-25 17:22 ` Michael Schmitz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-26 19:45 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-27 11:10 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-27 13:35 ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-27 13:57 ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-27 15:23 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 19:51 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-26 20:05 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-04-26 22:54 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-27 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-04-28 0:42 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28 6:06 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28 0:51 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28 6:09 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28 7:47 ` Michael Schmitz
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