On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> X feels too heavyweight for this purpose.
>
> Seems like it should be framebuffer approach. You could probably do it
> all in one binary instead of moving "all of X" to the root filesystem.
>
> Just wonder the what the rationale is of using X over a frame buffer
> approach.
- Only one thing breaks if we use X11, so either rhgb & desktop
work, or neither work
- The only mode we could safely switch to/from would be generic
VGA modes (640x480x16)
I did suggest doing that display using text mode, and carefully built
custom font but that has issues as well.
What about a VESA framebuffer? AFAIK, nearly every graphics card in the
market support VESA 1.x (at least). During installation, Anaconda could
check if the videocard supports VESA and, if so, install rhgb.