Re: 2.1.129-pre1 Matrox fb.

Geert Uytterhoeven (geert@geert.cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:58:52 +0100 (MET)

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Christian Balzer wrote:
> "Manuel J. Galan" <manolow@step.es> wrote:
>
> >Very nice indeed and working like a charm...
> 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.

Using software that bangs the hardware and isn't aware of frame buffer devices
can give unexpected results. Especially since both matroxfb and AX will program
the acceleration engine.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium






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