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Re: Is there a backport for the framebuffer device?



On Tue, 16 May 2000, Julian Stoev wrote:
>Sorry for the question, but are there any benefits on i386 to use
>fbdev? Speed? I read this is important on other architectures, but is
>there any reason I would like to use it on i386?

I used to have problems with X crashing and locking up my display card.  Now
X never crashes in an unrecoverable way.  When it crashes the kernel recovers
things and lets me login again.

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