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Re: Mandrake 7.0 quick notes (while installing on the other machine)
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
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.
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Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
[http://toast.demon.co.il]
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