From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
Cc: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6-test11 framebuffer Matrox
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:58:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031220215848.GA30057@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FE3FC11.70009@wmich.edu>
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:36:49AM -0500, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>
> But, what's really the point in using X with matroxfb?
In my case, the point is to run two instances of X, one on each
of the two framebuffers. I can then have two simultaneous users,
each using one of the two framebuffers. Two pc's in one!
> You lose half
> your memory off the bat that X cannot access and you get no added
> performance or anything.
Another X accesses the other memory :-)
> It really does not seem worth it. Use
> matroxfb if you need to do fb stuff in a console without X. Otherwise,
> stick to just plain console and X and forget about matroxfb.
Sure - for single-user setups.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-20 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-19 2:14 Steffen Schwientek
2003-12-19 8:30 ` Michael Hunold
2003-12-19 10:50 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-19 21:37 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-12-20 7:36 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-20 21:58 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2003-12-21 18:22 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-12-19 8:47 ` Michael Hunold
2003-12-19 16:29 ` nick black
2003-12-19 9:41 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-12-19 16:28 ` nick black
2003-12-21 17:51 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-12-19 8:54 rwhron
2003-12-19 18:50 Petr Vandrovec
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