OK, I think people are missing what I'm asking. I'm using the nvidia driver in XFree86. But, I have been doing vga=791 in lilo. So, what I was wondering...Does it hurt my setup, or is there an advantage to it?
Wayne Caleb Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 07:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have an nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400. I have compiled the nVidia drivers > and it works fine. When I had originally compiled the 2.4.17 kernel, I > had enabled the nVidia framebuffer in it. So, should I use it? Is their > a performance increase or decrease when using the framebuffer. What are > the advantages/dis-advantages to using the framebuffer? > > > > Wayne > > I've got the same setup. You CAN use use the VESA fb (I recommend > vga=791 as a a kernel arg), Do NOT use the RivaFB kernel driver, this > has some pretty nasty conflicts with NVidia's (closed source, boo!) X > driver. > > Cheers, > > Caleb
