frame buffers pro and con

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Chuck:

Frame buffer support has never impacted any of my systems negatively. In
fact, I find it rather cool to have screens that are 48 rows by 128
columns--the best config on my Thinkpad that also supports sighties.

Another issue, though, is the version of X you're looking at. XFree 3.3.X
is out of date. 4.0 was released almost a year ago, I think, and 4.1 is
now also out.
 On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi gang -
>
> When I installed this Slackware 7.1 Linux I had to choose whether to use
> frame buffers and I chose no. Now I am looking at installing X on this
> system, and the docs for XFree386 3.3.5 seem to insist that frame buffers
> be implemented. So - my question - if I reconfigure my system to use frame
> buffers, will speakup still work in text mode? I could try it and find
> out, but maybe someone can save me the grief.
>
> Thanks - Chuck
>
>
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