Originally posted by bridgman
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What Kind Of People Use X.Org's VESA Driver?
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Personally, I would never use a free driver over a binary blob unless the free driver performed the same or better compared to the blob.
I do use the vesa driver before the blob gets installed. I also use it as a fail safe in case something does go wrong.
But in the end I guess I am lucky and never had any real issues with using blobs.
I also prefer using drivers from the chip makers website instead of from repo's for the various distro's. It allows me to upgrade when new release's come out instead of whenever the distro decides to update it.
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Originally posted by frantaylor View Post"should" is the operative word here. It is not.
There are a couple of relatively recent bugs open on fdo - do either of those match what you are seeing ? One is a RandR problem with dual displays, the other looks like a LUT issue but no logs or other info attached :
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If I recall correctly, isn't the VESA driver is required for some VNC features to work? So for a server or virtual machine controlled by remote VNC access VESA might make sense. Also there are servers out there running RHEL4 and other out of date distros which likely have old drivers that lack support for the latest ATI and Nvidia integrated and server GPU's.
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I'll accept Poulsbo or any other SGX chipsets as a valid reason for VESA.
ES1000, as bridgman said, should work fine as long as you keep in mind that it's a crappy little chip not meant for anything besides text consoles and very mild 2D.
VIA chipsets are a crapshoot, but I think we've got 2D for just about all of them, which means VESA confers no advantage.
For nVidia and ATI/AMD chipsets, there's no excuse. Between nouveau and nv, radeon and (sigh) radeonhd, there's drivers that support everything except Evergreen, and Evergreens come with a CD with fglrx on it, which is non-optimal but enough to get you started. (If I understand correctly, Evergreens can't really run on VESA if you want DisplayPort outputs to work right, but I might be wrong on that.)
I only complained about this because I thought that 2-3% of respondents was a bit high for actual usage and a bit low for Anonymous having fun with us.
~ C.
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