Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
04 Jan 1999 11:13:34 +0100


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

|> On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
|> >
|> > This is exactly what XF68_FBDev does.
|>
|> As I already mentioned, XF86_FBDev does nothing of the sort. It's just a
|> stupid frame buffer driver.
|>
|> > The experimental version with hardware acceleration (for NCR77C32BLT, ATI
|> > Mach64 and IMS Twin Turbo)
|>
|> So are you going to duplicate all of the other X servers inside the
|> XF86_FBdev driver? Be my guest, but don't expect me to think very highly
|> of the project.

Think about dynamic linking.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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