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Subject: Re: Problem running demos when using Framebuffer option
From: Supriyo Chatterjea
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:12:33 +0800 (CST)

Thanks for the explanation!

Supriyo


--- Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> wrote: > On
Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Supriyo Chatterjea wrote:
> > Guess it's cause X11 works at some other some
> other
> > frequency so when I tried runnign the demos, the
> > screen got fuzzy.
> 
> The problem is that PC video hardware cannot deal
> with both the
> framebuffer video driver and the X video driver
> trying to access the
> hardware at the same time. If you were running the X
> framebuffer video
> driver, you could get away with it by simply
> switching to another console
> first, but not if you're using one of the X drivers
> which access the
> hardware directly. If you need to run microwindows
> from within X, that is
> what the microwindows X driver is for.
> 
> -- 
> ------- Alex Holden -------
> http://www.linuxhacker.org/
>  http://www.robogeeks.org/
> 


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