Qrux wrote: > On May 17, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Qrux wrote: >>> Console fonts (and asking people to build FB support in kernels) seem >>> like a waste of effort when most people probably spend 99% of their time >>> SSH'ed in to their LFS box or running X (both BLFS considerations). >>> > >> As well as adding better support for some glyphs, different console fonts >> can be different sizes: larger, and therefore hopefully more legible if >> your eyesight is not 100%, or smaller to allow more text on a screen. > > [Hard to trim? I don't understand. Your mail client doesn't word-wrap? I'll > try to be mindful, and insert a bunch of '\n's all over the place.]
Since you are using Applemail, I think the problem is that it is using \r for newlines instead of \n. I see your mail wrapped, but when replying, it doesn't wrap automatically. It's easy enough fo rme to to edit->rewrap though. > I'm asking if kbd serves a useful purpose. Short answer: yes. Longer answer: International keyboards need it and there are some useful functions for US keyboards. > You're saying I can make the font bigger. > > You also say I should have a FB kernel if I use X. > > So...1) How is X related to this discussion about LFS? > > And, 2) "Bigger fonts and better glyphs" at the expense of higher complexity > seems to warrant a "Hey--sanity check--is this machinery necessary?" Maybe if it only did that, I'd agree, but our international users want it for very practical reasons. >> Anyone running Xorg on ati (radeon), intel, or the nouveau-supported >> graphics cards, with a modern kernel, should be using KMS and therefore >> gets a framebuffer. > > This doesn't answer why LFS includes kbd. Because Xorg isn't needed on all systems and some don't have the needed HW. > That is an artifact of (bad) product design. Yea. Let's redesign all the non-us keybords in the world. Let's just drop this line of discussion. kbd will remain in LFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
