Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/31/14:11:39
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Orlando Andico wrote:
> > VBE 2.0 is still faster, though, just not by quite as much as you
> > implied :-)
> >
>
> I only use VBE 2.0 with UniVBE, I don't use DOS too much. Under
> Linux/XFree86, the card can be made to use a "linear framebuffer." Is this
> the same functionality as VBE 2.0? the X docs claims that LFB's don't give
> much of a speed improvement, at least on my card (CL5428) (which I realize
> is something of a lamer..)
LFB's might not give much of a speed improvement "under X" sounds more
realistic to me. Does that sound right?
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