On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Gustavo Alberto Homem wrote:
>> > One thing I can't find in the documentation. Are there advantages (or
>> > disadvantages) of using XF86_FBDev over XFree86 4.1 with fbdev driver ?
>> I only see an advantage for situations where Xserver is missing for your card
>> but there is a fbdev driver for kernel. If there is no fbdev driver for the
>> card for the kernel, it is better to use Xfree's vesa driver, because it is
>> slightly faster than vesafb+fbdev and also can do DGA.
>
>What I was really trying to ask was some comparison between the old
>XF86_FBDev 3.3.6 frame buffer XServer and the new XFree 4.1 using fbdev
>driver X server, i.e., a comparison between two framebuffer based XServers
>and not between the solutions and specific drivers. The reason is I am
>looking for the most general XServer, the one that will work with more
>cards, and from what I see the Vesa 1.2 cards are not supported by any
>framebuffer server, but the Vesa 2.0 ones should be.But still comes the
>doubt about wich one to use. (seems to be a rule of thumb to use
>framebuffer XServers in the installer, see Suse, Mandrake, Red Hat for
>instance). Without further information I'd say it shoud be logical to
>choose the newer release but I see all the distros using the old one.
Right, we use 3.3.6 FBDev in our installer 'aparently' because
the 4.x fbdev has issues... I have absolutely no idea what these
issues are, and since 3.3.6 has been part of the distribution all
along, the 3.3.6 FBDev is what was used on the basis of "if it
ain't broke, don't fix it".
That said, I will talk to our installer team and try to find out
what specifically these issues are, and bring them to the
attention of other developers. Perhaps they are issues that can
be easily resolved.
Thanks for mentioning this.
Take care,
TTYL
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