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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> 
> >
> >> Xvesa seems like a much greater threat to data since
> >> I lose my cursor and my half-typed mails.
> >
> > Definitely. You'll have to decide if the small size and complexity of
> > Xvesa make up for the security and stability risks. Xfbdev seems more
> > stable, but you need a kernel with rramebuffer support.
                                       ^ what happens when I'm
                                       in a hurry

> Also a VESA 2.0 video card, I think.  Mine are 1.2.

Depends on the driver you use. If you use the vesa driver, it's 2.0.
However, there are also FB drivers for vga16 and quite a few other cards.

David
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