> > > Yes, it is -- there are nasty videocards (such as Neomagic) where
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > > vesafb is the only way how to get usable graphics and text modes.
> >
> > Not any more, now Red Hat has released its XBF server. :-)
>
> XBF is binary only. So for free software the situation for the moment is
> unchanged.
No. There's working, free X server for neomagic (with
sources). Unfortunately without acceleration. See
http://www.mnsinc.com/js/Neomagic.html.
There will be neomagic support in next SVGATextMode
release. (Done by me, unfortunately, it has small problems with
suspend :-( ).
Pavel
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