changing to frame buffers

[Gregory Nowak]

Kirk, do you know why Linus said so?
Greg


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:41:43AM -0500, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Hi Chuck:  I can't answer your question directly about the frame
> buffer thing in slackware but I'm curious to know why you want to use
> frame buffers?  I just saw a note from Linus last week where he
> mentioned that no sane person should use frame buffers unless they
> needed them for video card support.  If it is to get extended video
> you can do that without frame buffer support by including video
> selection support when you compile the kernel and then placing a
> vga=extended line in your lilo.conf file.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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