[Xorg] Xfbdev

[Jaymz Julian]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:45:55PM +0200, thomas klein wrote:
> hi, 
> 
> I'm trying the fdo xserver Xfbdev.
> 
> Xmach64 works fine for me but I'm expecting some performance 
> enhancement with Xfbdev, am I wrong ?

you are very wrong - Xmach64 is not only faster than xfbdev, it is
*significantly* faster.

> when I try /opt/fdo/bin/Xfbdev, I got "/dev/fb0 no such device or 
> adress".
> 
> I got fb enabled in my kernel (linux 2.6.6, ati mach64)

Are you running devfs?  and if so, are you running devfsd?  under
devfs, your fb device is /dev/fb/0, iirc.  If you really, realyl, really
don't want to run devfsd, you could symlink that manually...

	-- jj

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