Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:18:02 +0200 | Subject | Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards | From | Oleg Verych <> |
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:11:12PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: > > Thus, text mode on modern hardware isn't useable that much, only with > > Terminus font it is kind of normal (kudos to Dimitar Toshkov Jekov). > > But it's only option to unfortunately sucking X11, even with memory > > bandwidth, you are talking about. > > That's another reason to use the framebuffer console on laptops.
Last time i tried, it wasn't so much fun either. Mainly due to wild cursor, that in normal text mode is well-behaved thing. Visually fb looks much heavier. What's the benefit, if you see how windows in emacs are painted? I don't know how giga-hertz/mem in cpu/sys-ram, mega-hertz/ram in gpu are doing better job WRT to anything in visual domain.
Also i don't know what to do in case of bugs/oops and "officially" closed hardware specs on ATI chips{ref}.
About laptop. First and last time i ran new X11 (X.org) there, it drove VGA fan really crazy. Don't know how it changed now, it was certainly due to blindly switching 3D on. I don't want to remove *standard* drivers because of that stupidness [see ref].
And after whole year being with Debian Sarge only, new application update led me to just drop all that X stuff and run windoze (silently sold to me with that laptop) if i need a stupid web browser with all that WEB 2.0 and Java crap... ____ - 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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