Re: Console driver

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:13:56 -0400

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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I have tried X, but only with the 'mga' driver. (I'm in the development
> group, so I'm using 3.9.) This does not work. I haven't tried the fbdev
> driver, though I doubt that if it works it will be fast enough to be
> useful.

Since you are using 3.9 you should be able to use fbdev as the chipset
driver using Matrox accels. IMHO should be as fast, or faster, than the
straight MGA driver. fbdev makes multi-head easier to setup and control
too.

Jeff

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