From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why???
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:56:55 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011231195655.A16870@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112302117.fBULHISr011887@svr3.applink.net> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112301618310.1011-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20011231164258.A1099@vaxerdec.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011231164258.A1099@vaxerdec.homeip.net>
Em Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:42:58PM -0500, Scott McDermott escreveu:
> Linus Torvalds on Sun 30/12 16:19 -0800:
> > No sane person should use frame buffers if they have the choice.
>
> 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...
> And why require me to load X just to have a usuable system? Yes I think
yes, why? Use lynx + zgv(in the rare cases where it is needed to see
images) ;)
> when I have to switch consoles so a program doing a lot of screen output
> doesn't block endlessly on my slow textmode display is unusable.
Thats what I feel when I use fbconsoles, and not the good old 80x25 text
mode console.
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-27 19:50 Framebuffer, mmap(), hanging in D state, root FS unmount failure Mark J Roberts
2001-12-29 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-30 8:34 ` [patch] " Andrew Morton
2001-12-30 21:13 ` [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why??? Timothy Covell
[not found] ` <3C2F8727.5D4AAE21@zip.com.au>
2001-12-30 22:27 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-31 1:51 ` James Simmons
2001-12-31 2:49 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-31 3:23 ` James Simmons
2001-12-31 12:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-31 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-31 21:53 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-31 0:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-31 1:54 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2001-12-31 8:03 ` gmack
2001-12-31 9:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-31 21:41 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-01 7:00 ` Werner Puschitz
2002-01-03 22:26 ` Marco Ermini
2002-01-04 13:27 ` [OT] " Tommi Kyntola
2002-01-04 14:04 ` Marco Ermini
2002-01-01 7:00 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-01 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-01 20:36 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-02 11:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-01 14:31 ` Marius Gedminas
2001-12-31 21:42 ` Scott McDermott
2001-12-31 21:56 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2001-12-31 22:26 ` James Simmons
2001-12-31 22:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-01 2:43 ` Bill Nottingham
2002-01-01 6:15 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-01 18:42 ` Joachim Steiger
2002-01-01 10:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-01 0:23 ` Ken Moffat
2002-01-01 7:03 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-31 12:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-07 6:36 Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-07 11:11 ` Marco Ermini
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