Re: Framebuffer mostly not needed by ia32 boxens.. :)

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:07:08 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> What people don't seem to realize is that the framebuffer code is mainly
> made for non-ia32 boxes that don't have hardware text support. I'd highly

Right.

> advise not using it on most ia32 boxes except when playing with neat
> videocapture software... ;-)

But vgafb is a nice text mode frame buffer device :-)

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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