linux system that does not use the console except in TEXT mode.

[shimi]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:40 AM, shimi wrote:
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>>> I think most distro's have 'nox' and/or 'nofb' or equivalent...
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>> Thanks,  I'll try the nofb option, but there is no X installed on the
>> computer. At first I thought that I could have it installed but not started
>> so I could use Xvnc, and renamed the X server to something else, but that
>> did not work either. Then I tried their server version with no X installed
>> at all.
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> ‎That's why I said nofb. It has nothing to do with X.
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> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framebuffer
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More specifically, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer :)

-- Shimi
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