On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:00:59PM -0800, Nufarul Alb wrote:
> on a matrox card (matrox g550), is it absolutely necesary to use the 
> matrox specific framebuffer module??

Yes.

> if yes, why?

DirectFB needs access to framebuffer memory and chip registers. Also
the chip is identified by the accelrator id returned by the fbdev driver.

> and what advantages vs. vesafb.o would be there?

Mode switching at least.

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