Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

[forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@hushmail.com>]

On 21:42 Tue 25 Mar     , Sergey Kobzar wrote:
> >> That's one of the reason why I wanted intelfb, but got no luck. I'm
> >> using uvesafb at the moment, but still hope intelfb will be fixed
> >> soon.
> >> 
> > I seem to have missed the start of this thread, but if you don't mind,
> > could you give me a quick idea on what is broken within intelfb? I've
> > been debating on switching to it, but keep seeing info on it being
> > broken, and nothing on WHAT is broken.
> 
> I see screen with many scrolling white lines (probably this are kernel
> messages). It looks like problem with synchronization or unsupported
> video mode.
> 
> uvesafb works nice.
> 
> -- 
> Sergey
> 
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> 

uvesafb works, but it is a bit slow, and requires user-space programs to
run. Its a great peice of code and such, but something that is
kernel-space and able to use hardware effectivly would be even nicer.

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