From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 13:11:35 -0700 (PDT)

Re: XF86FBDev Debian binary

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 05:53:23PM +0000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > > > Yeah, I have alien installed, but would it work ok with rh6.0?
> > > >
> > > > With my matrox mystique?  Would it be better than XF86_SVGA?
> > > 
> > > It will if you use a framebuffer driver.
> > > 
> > > It'll be slower than XF86_SVGA, but it'll also take much less memory.
> > 
> > XGGI will be faster than XF86FBDev, and take less memory. ;)
> 
> And one of these days, it'll actually work too, instead of requiring I
> run the server, change to a different console, and start running
> clients...!
> 
> (using sleep to start things in the background hopefully after the server
> starts up didn't work at all)

	The new XGGI binary can be dropped-in to replace XF86_whatever, fix 
the link in /etc/X11, and it should work fine if LibGGI works.  That is 
what I have running here and it works perfectly.  I too could not get the 
stupid sleep thing to work, but you shouldn't need it at all.

Jon

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