Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 20:09:24 EST


On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:27:31PM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Also is it possible to run X on a machine that is running from a serial
> console and have it start up on the graphics card at that point? I
> thought about that option since then everything would be in user space,
> but wasn't sure how that would work (plus there would be a long delay
> between when the machine is powered on and something shows up on the
> screen, which is generally not a good thing for consumer products).

I'm actually doing this in practice.


-- wli
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