On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:49 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Zeuthen (davidz@xxxxxxxxxx) 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. :) vbetool seems to work fine on my laptop, with a Radeon 9700 Mobility. I had to switch to a VT and back to get X displaying properly, but I had the same issue with the "video_post" tool some Intel guys gave me. -- Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx>
