Re: Extirpating framebuffer
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:22:50PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > What on earth is the point of this framebuffer stuff?
>
> For what it's worth, I find that its main advantage is that it can give
> me graphics on the console without the hideousness (and in my case the
> lock-up-my-console-ness) of SVGAlib. w3m and w3m-img in unstable are
> capable of being a graphical web browser on a framebuffer.
With all this framebuffer talk recently, I decided to enable it on my
laptop (an oldish Toshiba Portege 3020CT). I think I like it!
Patrick
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Patrick Wiseman
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