Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Oops in fbcon | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 26 Nov 1998 11:24:07 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Heuer <jogi@planetzork.ping.de> writes:
Jochen> Hello, today I tried the new XFree86-3.3.3 SVGA server for my Jochen> Matrox Mill. G200 card and I immediately got an oops. Maybe Jochen> this is caused because I just installed the new server without Jochen> the other packages. I just wanted to try it because the server Jochen> is glibc like the rest of my system. The SuSE server which I Jochen> was running before flawlessly is only libc5. Maybe I should Jochen> just wait for RedHat to release an update package. Although I Jochen> think that the system should not oops. Or am I wrong here? Jochen> Well, here comes the oops:
The SVGA server knows nothing about fbdev, if you want to run X on top of a frame buffer device you _must_ use a frame buffer aware X server. If it worked before it was purely a coincidence.
Jes
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