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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen Virtual Framebuffer

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen Virtual Framebuffer
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:15:46 -0500
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On 12/5/05, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some things just work better when you can enable shared memory
> extensions under X, which obviously can't be done over the network.
>
> Also, X isn't the only thing that can make use of a framebuffer.

What is an example of something that uses framebuffer?

Console is not a good example since that is effectively addressed by
using remote xterms.

>
> James

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