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Jim Boedicker

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From: *Nix Centric Idealogy

Registered: 2011-08-08

Posts: 8

[ SOLVED ] Non-Framebuffer Character Consoles?

[ Solved ] 09 August 2011

I'm pretty sure after some research that a kernel re-compile or the right kernel
argument/s at boot time would allow consoles w/o invoking graphical framebuffer. - jb

Hi CrunchBangers,

Does anyone have any interest in non-framebuffer virtual consoles?
I did this on Ubuntu 11.04 using some kernel arguments, one of which was "nomodeset",
this broke Unity starting up though, but I had Beautiful character consoles!
This no doubt had a lot to do with Unity being a Compiz plug-in, etc, and hopefully not X
in general?
I abandoned Ubuntu in favor of #! that's why I'm asking here. There's nothing inherently
wrong with framebuffer consoles of course, I just crave a standard full screen 80x25 character
console sometimes! And, I can't always drag a  vt-xxx  terminal around everywhere!

I'd like to be able to switch to a virtual console that is without framebuffer graphics, from X,
( Ctrl, Alt,  F1 - F6 ) hopefully without wreacking X or a kernel recompile. Thanks in advance for
any thoughts on this inquiry!

Jim

Last edited by Jim Boedicker (2011-08-10 01:49:09)

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