For my latest LFS (7.7, x86-64) build, I'm finally, reluctantly, using framebuffers to accomodate modern video cards. I put "video=640x480-16" kernel parameter in GRUB to keep the startup console messages readable & looking like they were from the kernel startup.
One of the touted reasons for using framebuffers is to prevent screen "flicker", but when udev runs the screen always blanks for half a second! Any way to make that faster? But also, curiously, on the startup messages when the FB takes over, the "[OK]" part is shifted right one character. Looks strange! The old "off by one" error? init.d/functions doesn't seem to care about framebuffers. init.d/console does, but doesn't do anything about line lengths. stty, in functions, returning a different size? It's getting that from the kernel, and it's not obvious where functions is "off by one". Is this fixable? -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
