On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>
> Ira Abramov wrote:
> > Hat) and I was quite surprised to notice they are using the frame buffer
> > instead of straight text mode... gotta try that one day (anyone knows
> > what are the benefits if any?)
>
> Frame buffer seems to be more a hack, since as I understood,
> GGI should be the real graphical-drivers thing for Linux.
>
> The only two existing benefits for a fb-ed console are the boot-time
> Tux logo (mentioned as the main reason in the kernel configs)
> and fbtv (a part of the xawtv package) for watching TV/video from
> video4linux devices right in a console with no annoying mode switches
when i installed a fresh RH6.1 on my system (P233MMX+192MB)
and compiled the kernel with fb support to get the logo (Mach64).
everything worked well except for the fact that i could not get X
to work properly. the symptoms were some vertical line in a mode that was
configured and worked flawlessly with the kernel not having the fb
support.
my question is why and am i the only one ???
Ohad.
> on changing console cause both your text console and TV use the same
> video mode. Nice to boot into it just to watch TV fullscreen,
> but otherwise it's feels much slower than text mode on my ATI Mach64
> and ET6000.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
> [http://toast.demon.co.il]
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