Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On 26 Oct 1999 04:15:33 +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
> 
> > Does the default SuSE IDE kernel have support for the fbdev module?  Can
SaX make an XF86Config for an LCD with this server?
> 
> No and no, unfortunately :(

Is this like the APMC issue, or is it just too big to fit, or what?

> I'd stick away from that, Jon. FBDev is very slow. Better get a laptop
with a supported chipset...

I understand the speed issue, but it's not like I'll be doing anything of a
high-performance nature on a laptop, anyway :).  Perhaps the dealer down the
street can build me an Asus M8k with the options I need.  It'll be a *lot*
more expensive...

<!snip!>

> IMHO: Wait a bit longer and save the money on a better supported one.

For Pete's sake, man!  Can't a guy daydream?!?! ;)


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