On Don, 2003-02-27 at 23:01, Jon Smirl wrote: > -- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Notice that the DRI drivers don't do anything like > > mode setting and > > such, they depend on the X drivers for that. So if > > you take away the X > > driver, you will not be able to get anything > > outputed on your monitor. > > Unless you use the fbdev drivers for example. > > It would be simple to lift the mode setting and > hardware identification code out of the fb drivers and > add it to the DRM kernel driver. If you were still > using the 2D drivers the new code in DRM would just be > ignored.
But what would be the advantage over leaving it as a framebuffer device or whatever in the first place? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
