Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265193AbUABGye (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 01:54:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265196AbUABGye (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 01:54:34 -0500 Received: from skintwin.microway.com ([64.80.227.45]:47561 "EHLO skintwin.microway.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265193AbUABGyd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 01:54:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF514D6.2070701@mail.ru> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 01:51:02 -0500 From: Yaroslav Klyukin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Calleja , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: best AMD motherboard for Linux References: <17Mr0-3MN-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <17MTX-4tr-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <17Mr0-3MN-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <17NmT-53G-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <1894e-34n-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <18wWI-5xF-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <18y2M-7Zy-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <18CSr-880-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <18L9o-5xr-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <194lF-8q6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <19euJ-59K-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <19gZu-8vz-1@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <19gZu-8vz-1@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 906 Lines: 16 Diego Calleja wrote: > And if anyone had a tdfx card in a powerpc machine, they could use it. > Unlike the propietary drivers: you have to use the framebuffer in your > ibook (with linux) because you don't have drivers for PPC. However, I have iBook with ATI video. IMHO, the use of framebuffer in _text_ mode is required, because of lack of fonts. As for graphical mode, ati.2 AKA ?gatos? drivers work just fine. It took me some struggle, before I could make this video card play movies with mplayer. Standard ati or radeon drivers, which come with 4.3.0 XFree86 had have poor performance. Now I can play fullscreen on 600Mhz PPC CPU. > Mac OS X has them.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/