Re: matroxfb, 2.6 and 2.4

On 03/08/2004 Jonas Meurer wrote:
> ok, i've done so, but now i'm running with mga compiled as module, and
> automaticly mounted. first boot with this new kernel did work well ...

anyway, using mga doesn't help anything. my system still sucks.

> > Can you recheck that you have 'Option "UseFBDev" "true"' and 
> > 'Option "HWcursor" "off"' in the XFree config?
> 
> both weren't in the config, but also aren't documented in XF86Config-4(5x)
> anyway i've added them to "Device" section, and xfree86 still runs ok.
> 
> we'll see if it helps.

it doesn't. don't see any change with these options in the config.

the only strange thing is, that i said 'use fb device' at configuration
of debian's xserver-xfree86 package. maybe a bug.

> > And for DRI I do not understand X code well enough to find where
> > tests which should prevent X from hitting hardware should be added.

do you mean that usually it shouldn't change anything?

bye
 jonas


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