STR working out of the box

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:49 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) 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.

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Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>