[ale] Am I insane?

[Wylde Bill]

Ah, console.

Tell me, as I've never tried it, what exactly are the advantages of the fb
console/fb X?  What kinds of cards will it run on?  How stable is it?



"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:

> I am *not* insane!
>
> The option to use an fb console appears during the LILO
> configuration step. I skipped that, planning to install
> GRUB instead.
>
> -- Joe
>
> "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> >
> > The other day I installed Slackware 8.1 on my laptop, and
> > at some point it gave be the opportunity to choose a
> > framebuffer-enabled kernel, and the fb X server. Today, I
> > am reinstalling Slack 8.1 from scratch on the same machine,
> > and for the life of me I can't get it to offer me an FB kernel,
> > nor the xxfb X server.
> >
> > WTF?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -- Joe
> >   "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
> >    sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
> >    the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me
> >
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>    the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me
>
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