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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Xvesa black magic
From:       Rene Rebe <rene () exactcode ! de>
Date:       2009-02-12 9:32:57
Message-ID: 6E0A892E-3779-4D12-B19D-2AB7A396B74C () exactcode ! de
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On 12.02.2009, at 09:59, Rémi Cardona wrote:

> Le 12/02/2009 09:38, Rene Rebe a écrit :
>> Even more annoying is that the kdrive xvesa was deleted from
>> the xorg-server git repository some weeks ago!
>>
>>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=6d21fbf00648307208146aca0837ec63ea490659
>>
>> Too bad the commit message does not even indicate why, ...
>
> Because it had been severely broken by other changes in the server and
> no-one really cared about it anyway.
>
> You'll probably be much better off using kdrive's Xfbdev on top of
> uvesafb or another kernel fb driver.


The random regressions and feature removal in the open source
world these days really make one wonder.

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   René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
   http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name

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