Re: 2.1.129-pre1 Matrox fb.

Manuel J. Galan (manolow@step.es)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:02:16 +0000

Christian Balzer wrote:
>
>
> It's a long awaited thing, unfortunately it clashes with
> Accelerated-X 4.1, the mouse pointer is rendered invisible.
> Now if the fb/XFree combination will come anywhere close to
> AX performance I wouldn't mind, but until that is established
> this minor problem can hopefully be fixed.
[...]

Yes, XF68_FBDev is very sloooow. but I have no problems
running XF86_SVGA and it seems pretty fast to me... (besides
that AX4.1 is not glibc based nor multithreaded and I have
a dual processor Apollo system).

What I do is to use the same mode for console and for X11
I get it with this line for lilo.conf (monitor is a 17" NEC)

append="video=matrox:xres:1024,right:16,hslen:96,left:176,yres:768,lower:1,vslen:3,upper:28,pixclock:12699,depth:32,nopan,fv:100,fh:65k"

And this is the corresponding XF86Config entry:
Modeline "1024x768" 80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800

No more relay 'clicks' in the monitor and weird things on changing
form X11 to console.

A fine work.

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