Re: still not out of the woods with idepci / compact kernels

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>]

Hi.

In <[🔎] oay9tgar1x.fsf@arroz.fake>,
 on "05 Apr 2001 00:50:18 -0400",
 with "Re: still not out of the woods with idepci / compact kernels",
  Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> wrote:

> > BTW, I have heard that the boot option "video=vga16:off" works well.
> > So I think we should note this option in the place of "video=vc:8"
> > in $LANG/f5.txt above.
> 
> Go ahead, patch it.

OK, I'll try.

> > frame buffer support is essential for bogl-bterm for utf-8 and
> > jfbterm for euc-jp.  So if there is no official kernel with frame
> > buffer support, then i18n boot floppies will die before going real.
> 
> The compact and idepci kernels have framebuffer support.  Why would we
> wanna turn that off ?

Thanks.  I want to make sure it.

> My big worries is that we don't have a libnewt or a libslang at all
> right now.

Sure.

-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>