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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why???
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> > 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...

Which framebuffer driver? Soem are good and some suck. Vesafb is really
bad. It far better to use a native card dr4iver if it is avaliable.


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