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From: Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: nvidia-guide.xml
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:50:07
Message-Id: E1JXBnf-0001fo-9D@stork.gentoo.org
1 nightmorph 08/03/06 08:50:03
2
3 Modified: nvidia-guide.xml
4 Log:
5 switched from vesafb-tng to uvesafb
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.45 xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
9
10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.45&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.45&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?r1=1.44&r2=1.45
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14 Index: nvidia-guide.xml
15 ===================================================================
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.44
18 retrieving revision 1.45
19 diff -u -r1.44 -r1.45
20 --- nvidia-guide.xml 15 Nov 2007 20:22:55 -0000 1.44
21 +++ nvidia-guide.xml 6 Mar 2008 08:50:03 -0000 1.45
22 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
23 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
24 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v 1.44 2007/11/15 20:22:55 nightmorph Exp $ -->
25 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v 1.45 2008/03/06 08:50:03 nightmorph Exp $ -->
26 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
27
28 <guide link="/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml">
29 @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
30 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
31 <license/>
32
33 -<version>1.35</version>
34 -<date>2007-11-15</date>
35 +<version>1.36</version>
36 +<date>2008-03-06</date>
37
38 <chapter>
39 <title>Introduction</title>
40 @@ -165,31 +165,31 @@
41 </pre>
42
43 <p>
44 -A good framebuffer alternative is <c>VESA</c>:
45 +A framebuffer alternative is <c>VESA</c>:
46 </p>
47
48 <pre caption="Enable VESA support">
49 Device Drivers ---&gt;
50 Graphics Support ---&gt;
51 -&lt;*&gt; VESA VGA graphics support
52 +[*] VESA VGA graphics support
53 </pre>
54
55 <p>
56 -Then, under "VESA driver type" select either <c>vesafb</c> or
57 -<c>vesafb-tng</c>. If you are using an AMD64 processor, you should select
58 -<c>vesafb</c> rather than <c>vesafb-tng</c>:
59 +Or, you may want to try <c>uvesafb</c>, an <uri
60 +link="http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/">advanced
61 +framebuffer</uri>. Note that you can choose to compile it into your kernel, or
62 +as a module. The following example compiles uvesafb into the kernel.
63 </p>
64
65 -<pre caption="Select framebuffer type">
66 -(X) vesafb
67 -( ) vesafb-tng
68 +<pre caption="Enable uvesafb support">
69 +Device Drivers ---&gt;
70 +Graphics Support ---&gt;
71 +&lt;*&gt; Userspace VESA VGA graphics support
72 </pre>
73
74 <p>
75 -For more information, you can read up
76 -<path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt</path> if you are using
77 -<c>vesafb</c> or look for your framebuffer documentation under
78 -<path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/</path>.
79 +For more information, you can look up the documentation for your chosen
80 +framebuffer in <path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/</path>.
81 </p>
82
83 </body>
84
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