On May 1 2007 14:41, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Tue, 1 May 2007, Rene Herman wrote: >> >> The answer will probably be "no", but would this be a good point to ask if >> this would be a good time to not bother with the mode switching code at all >> anymore? > >The standard extended modes are actually really useful, if for a very >simply reason: they give you bigger more lines on screen when a bug >happens. > >So I _still_ occasionally use "vga=extended" just for that reason. The >default 80x25 thing scrolls most oops away. >[...] >80x50 is useful for the above reason. Yeah, it's ugly, but it's useful for >the "It's too much work to try to do anything but just take a digital >photo of the screen". And that 50-line mode will actually be 43 in EGA >mode, I think. > >The 132x50 mode is probably a bit prettier, and is fairly common too, and >useful for the same reason.
Seconded. 80x50, and where platforms support it, *80x60 and 132x60*, is kinda handy (despite the font getting smaller and smaller, heh), esp. when you don't run it in VMware and not have some capturing device (serial con/netconsole.. takes time to set up) >And yes, I'm literally talking about the *text* modes. Not all of us want >to have fbcon built in - I prefer my text-mode lean and mean and fast as >hell, and if I want a frame buffer, I'll take X11, thank you very much. You speak for me :) Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/