Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Framebuffer mostly not needed by ia32 boxens.. :) | Date | Sun, 28 Jun 1998 11:45:46 -0500 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Aaron Tiensivu <tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu> said: > What people don't seem to realize is that the framebuffer code is mainly > made for non-ia32 boxes that don't have hardware text support. I'd highly > advise not using it on most ia32 boxes except when playing with neat > videocapture software... ;-)
AFAIU, the whole idea of including this stuff in the ia32 configuration is to get rid of the specialized ia32 kludge that does the console now... so it _is_ supposed to be used on intel boxes. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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