On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:43:27PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> how dumb I am to mix up vesafb up with the vesa driver, which provides
> both framebuffer and textmode access.
> 
> now where can I find this magical vesa driver which supports both
> accelerated text and framebuffer modes in the tree?

As I said earlier in the message to which you responded:

>> Uh, no.  Your strange idea that the limitiations of the code currently
>> in the tree somehow represent a design ideal rather than a design
>> mistake, on the other hand -- that really _does_ confuse me.

Reasoning backwards from the fact that the driver has "fb" in the name
to the idea that it clearly ought not support text modes is...perverse.

Thor