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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:56:55 -0200
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why???
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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
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