On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Jakub Krajcovic commented thusly,
> I don't know what's the problem with using framebuffer??? I think that > the framebuffer is a great idea. Why bother with X all the time, when > sometimes you don;t even need to start it, and you can do all you need > in the console, even _graphically_ browse the net (yes, links it is). One thing I dont like about the frame buffer is that the modes have a horrible refresh rate, some are at 60hz which makes them unusable for long term perposes. There must be a way of increasing this but I never bothered to find out as I can do this as the X driver automatically figures out the highest refresh rated. > An one more thing for the framebuffer: try watching divx/xvid/etc movies > in fullscreen on a pII 266, ati mach 64 4mb and 96 mb ram in X and see > how far you go. And thanks to the vesa framebuffer (but mplayer mostly > :-)), an old piece of junk is a great mobile multimedia station... Surely the X driver will be allways faster than vesa? If it supports some kind of 2d accelration even (most old cards do) this will be ALLWAYS faster than writing to VESA which is not hardware accelerated IIRC. VBE 2.0 had some improvements but I still dont beleive that there was any 2d hardware acceleration involved in the specs. Grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
