Extirpating framebuffer
What on earth is the point of this framebuffer stuff?
The Framebuffer-HOWTO tells me that it will:
a: Give me the Linux logo
True to a point, but the colours collapse when run
level 2 is entered, and by being placed on the left
it obscures some of those messages that flash by.
b: Work on multiple platforms
My computer just happens to be a single platform.
On the other hand,
a: I have this unbearably glaring cursor. (I admit
that there is a section in the docs telling me how
to change it, but I don't understand it.)
b: Scrolling screenwise is unpleasant. It doesn't
just flip the screen but seems to flash all the
intermediate positions on to the screen.
c: I like to compare sections of text by having them
in adjacent virtual consoles and switching between
them. This doesn't work well with framebuffer
because the screen clears before displaying the
contents of the virtual console that has been
switched to. This makes differences much more
difficult to see - well, maybe not much more but
unnecessarily more.
The trouble started when I installed kernel version
2.2.20-idepci (downloaded from debian.org) after I had been
running 2.2.19pre9 (from CDs).
I'd like to have the latest 2.2 kernel but without the
framebuffer thing. Can I remove it from the kernel I have?
Can I find out which is the latest kernel that doesn't
include it? Or can I be persuaded that it really is a
good thing?
All advice will be much appreciated.
David
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