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 > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
