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| author | Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gmail.com> | 2008-01-17 20:25:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gmail.com> | 2008-01-17 20:25:53 +0100 |
| commit | 2b3df508106c0cf311132baeab89a2049fe22a77 (patch) | |
| tree | 856965a43310eb746892d2c80514e144c76d0da2 /doc/faq | |
| parent | d4422c12b810ff9af859ed141f064e137f6bf3be (diff) | |
| download | xine-lib-2b3df508106c0cf311132baeab89a2049fe22a77.tar.gz xine-lib-2b3df508106c0cf311132baeab89a2049fe22a77.tar.bz2 | |
Remove SyncFB video output plugin, and related documentation and code.
Matthias Dahl, the last maintainer of the code, confirms that the needed Linux kernel module is not building anymore, and thus this is unusable.
Please consider using VIDIX or DirectFB instead, which should both work fine with Matrox cards.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/faq/faq.docbook | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/faq/faq.docbook b/doc/faq/faq.docbook index fa414f1e9..57da1c5bd 100644 --- a/doc/faq/faq.docbook +++ b/doc/faq/faq.docbook @@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ </para> <para> Drivers that access hardware directly includes VIDIX (warning: requires - root priviledges or kernel helper) and SyncFB (requires kernel helper - Matrox only). + root priviledges or kernel helper). User may try one of those, but should be warned that with root access they can cause the system to crash hard. The support is also limited to a couple of graphics cards only. |