nanogui: Problem running demos when using Framebuffer option
Subject:
Re: Problem running demos when using Framebuffer option
From:
Supriyo ####@####.####
Date:
11 Dec 2000 07:09:36 -0000
Message-Id: <20001211071233.7726.qmail@web4406.mail.yahoo.com>
Thanks for the explanation!
Supriyo
--- Alex Holden ####@####.#### 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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