avoid Intel GMA 600 more than you avoid GMA 500

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 09:10:15PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Virtually all linux video drivers are now framebuffer-based.  And
> having used the netbook with VESA and kernel-mode GMA500 drivers, I can
> assure you that the GMA500 driver is much, much faster.  See the tests
> with Youtube videos that I mentioned in the thread I referenced.  Not to
> mention that it does native 1366x768 mode versus VESA's 1024x768.

Well a lot of the framebuffer drivers have some acceleration for text
drawing and scrolling and such.  The vesa one probably is about as bad
as they get.

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Len Sorensen
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