From: Tony Nugent (tony@growzone.com.au)
Date: Thu 30 Mar 2000 - 09:39:57 IST
On Thu Mar 30 2000 at 09:10, "Mitja Semolic" wrote: > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Don't use text/html and quoted-UNprintable for sending email. Turn that off in your outrage excess mailer. > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I change console text video mode for a vesa framebuffer. But now the = > svga is not initialized properly. There is some junk on screen! Never use the framebuffer if you intend to use svgalib programs. IMHO: The framebuffer has a lot of potential uses, but it is currently rather immature and little real practical value other than forcing way cool very high text console resolutions and a tux or two (depending on the number of processors) on the screen during bootup. But at the moment is it not worth using on a regular basis as it is problematic... incompatable with svgalib and risky with X. Things will change in time of course. Actually, there is now a bunch of guys re-writing the console driver code with the aim to get it into the 2.5.x devel series kernels. Different resolutions per console, a *real* scrollback buffer, cursor tweaking, stuff like that. You might want to look at GGI (general graphics interface) if you are keen on this sort of stuff. Cheers Tony
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