STR working out of the box

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 15 18:49:35 UTC 2005


David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> > >  3. vbetool is kind of evil; it's a workaround for broken video
> > >     drivers and the mess that is X.org / kernel interaction wrt.
> > >     to video hardware (so, vbetool becomes the 3th or 4th player
> > >     directly touching hardware. Yay!). I expect we need to add
> > >     radeontool at some point too.
> > 
> > Note that vbetool is only for certain cards. There are other tools
> > for other cards.
> 
> Apart from radeontool?

radeontool/vbetool should cover ATI & nVidia. Hopefully everyone
else doesn't need them. :)

Bill




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