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Re: [TCLUG:6627] res and refresh w/ fb
Yeah, VESA fb is unaccel.
Matrox cards (i thought) had some accell. who knows.
Stick with the xfree stuff :)
Did you check out the matrox GLX OpenGL stuff yet either thats in
development?
Scott Dier
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Ben Luey wrote:
> Thanks for all the info!! I couldn't get XF86_FBDEV to work at the right
> refresh rate (didn't really try) but I got the right resolution and
> found my X speed (or scrolling in netscape) noticably slower, so I went
> back to my regular XF86_SVGA and ditched fb since I only work in X. If
> you can get X faster under fb than svga, please e-mail me and I'll try
> to get it to look good, but if it is slower it isn't worth the time.
>
> Ben
>
> JellyD wrote:
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> > On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Ben Luey wrote:
> >
> > > How can I set the terminal resolution and refresh rate on my MAtrox
> > > Mystique 220 with frame buffer support. I tried running fbset -xres 1024
> > > -yres 768 and it just brought my monitor into dpms mode. The commands
> > > in teh kernel documentation don't convert the hexidecal to numbers,
> > > which I need to use lilo to pass the commands and they don't tell me how
> > > to change the refresh mode.
> >
>
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