On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:45:41PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:44:52AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: > | On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:36:14PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > | > In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel > | > 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what advantages > | > do framebuffers have? In the docs it seems that fb's simply allow for > | > similar config's on different architechures. Therefore, if one is > | > running an Intel machine then it doesn't seem like framebuffers have > | > any added advantage. Is this correct? > | > | Here is a quote from Linus himself on this issue: > | > | "No sane person should use frame buffers if they have the choice." > > I'd like to know why. I'm using framebuffer on both machines I manage > and it is really nice -- no mucking with X config and awesome screen > real-estate in console mode.
More code in the kernel, and much less mature code at that, means less stability. When a non-fb X server locks up, you don't lose everything else. I don't use console mode much, and the X config is not significantly simpler with fb support, so for me the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. In other circumstances, reasonable people might conclude the opposite. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
