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Em Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:42:58PM -0500, Scott McDermott escreveu: > Linus Torvalds on Sun 30/12 16:19 -0800: > > No sane person should use frame buffers if they have the choice. > > Text mode is slow and has poor resolution, yes even svga text mode stuff > is way slower than accelerated fbconsole for me, I don't like having to > wait for the screen to update when I page a file and go to the next > page. ouch, this hasn't been the case for me for ages, maybe I should try this accelerated fbconsole thing again... > And why require me to load X just to have a usuable system? Yes I think yes, why? Use lynx + zgv(in the rare cases where it is needed to see images) ;) > when I have to switch consoles so a program doing a lot of screen output > doesn't block endlessly on my slow textmode display is unusable. Thats what I feel when I use fbconsoles, and not the good old 80x25 text mode console. - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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