[rescue] Solaris 8 Differences

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 22:37, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > > what do you mean it has no frame buffer support?  
> > 
> > I mean that is uses the OpenBoot console. Which is painfully slow on
> > an LX, a bit like using a 9600 terminal. It is just completely
> > orthogonal to the blindingly (in comparison) fast and efficient
> > framebuffer consoles you get with linux.
> 
> ok, now maybe this just seems silly to me, but do you want to know why there
> is no good text framebuffer support?  it's REALLY SIMPLE.  if you are only
> going to use text, PUT A SERIAL CONSOLE ON THE MACHINE.

Perhaps, but that's not much faster.  :-)
	Greg

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