On 5 March 2015 at 00:00, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Have a look at DirectFB, MPlayer, Links and fbi, to name but a few > > applications. These all work well with the framebuffer on *LFS. > > Isn't it confusing to have some full-screen graphics apps in X and some > direct to the FB? I suppose direct might be more efficient, but not if > it means hopping in and out of X, or am I missing something? > No, I don't think you're missing anything. I don't use X much as most of my boxes are servers. I have, however, always been fascinated by just how much can be achieved (in graphical terms) by using the framebuffer and ditching X. As you say: "simpler is better". > As a point of information I could never get video= to work but vga=792 > > works for me. I should point out that I use Syslinux rather than > > Grub2, which is far too bloated for me. > > Yes, I'm beginning to come to that conclusion. One of the reasons I > moved to Linux--simpler is better. Grub has the systemd disease. ;-) > Far more development appears to go into Syslinux than Grub2. There were five different versions of Syslinux released in 2013 and one at the end of last year. I find Syslinux much easier to build, configure and use. It's small, light, and fast. Surely, all we require of a bootloader is to boot the system. Again, as you say: "simpler is better". Richard
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