On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:55:20AM +0200, Fr?d?ric Dreier wrote: > >That's to be expected. It's the framebuffer. It exists because it > >works better for some people. > > > > > > Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. > not really a 'must' but console looks better :-)
svgatextmode is the way to get a higher resolution console. framebuffer is there to support consoles on architectures which don't have text mode support. Linus himself doesn't like it but unfortunately some architectures need it. Double unfortunately the author of svgatextmode has given up maintaining it because framebuffer exists, so it doesn't support a lot of modern video cards, including Radeons. I keep telling myself that I'll get round to hacking it one day. Difficult, because it involves wading through loads of X source code trying to figure out how to program a Radeon. I'm just grateful to ATI that the source code is available. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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