Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:31:12 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why??? |
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Em Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:26:04PM -0800, James Simmons escreveu: > > > > Text mode is slow and has poor resolution, yes even svga text mode stuff > > > is way slower than accelerated fbconsole for me, I don't like having to > > > wait for the screen to update when I page a file and go to the next > > > page. > > > > ouch, this hasn't been the case for me for ages, maybe I should try this > > accelerated fbconsole thing again... > > Which framebuffer driver? Soem are good and some suck. Vesafb is really > bad. It far better to use a native card dr4iver if it is avaliable.
My card is a Neomagic, so I use vesafb...
Please let me know if somebody has specs for:
00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
If they're enough to write a fb driver for this card... Well, I can try and write a driver. 8)
Humm, there are XFree86 drivers (that sucks lately, but I'm lazy so maybe its my fault)...
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