On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Martin Lucina wrote:
> This patch integrates some minor fixes and cleanups in my code tree and
> also updates the documentation for tgafb.
>
> I have tested it on 24bpp and 8bpp platforms so it should be suitable for
> putting into 2.3.99-preX.
| The XFree86 FBDev server has been reported not to work, since tgafb doesn't do
| mmap(). Running the standard XF86_TGA server from XFree86 3.3.x works fine for
| me, however this server does not do acceleration, which make certain operations
| quite slow. Support for acceleration is being progressively integrated in
| XFree86 4.x.
Probably this depends on the type of Alpha box? Last time I tried XF86_FBDev on
my UDB, it worked fine.
BTW, what about using the modedb code (Documentation/fb/modedb.txt)? It can be
used with your private video mode database.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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