Rob Kendrick wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 21:22, Tarquin Mills wrote:
Linux can use dumb terminals and X terminals, but can it use any types of bitmap terminal, say with SVGALib producing the output?
How would this be any different in the long run from, say, an X terminal? DEC used to make graphical terminals with mice and keyboards, VT2000s, IIRC. And they were just X terminals. You wouldn't want to run a framebuffer over a slow line, like you would a dumb terminal, because of all the traffic. Where using X you transmit the primitives to draw the image, rather than the image itself.
Perhaps if you could explain more precisely what it is your after, and how you'd like to connect it to the Unix box?
Bitmap would need 100Mbit ethernet. X Servers take time to write.