  A general question on framebuffers  After having tamed the
horrible ACPI power drain while sleeping, mostly patching quite
a few things in the radeonfb code I discovered that the
bootsplash code will currently work with another framebuffer
(vesafb 16bit color).  My questions are:  1) what are the
advantages of an hw specific framebuffer such as radeonfb as
opposed to a more generic vesafb ?  2) Other than embellishing
my boot screen with penguins and their brethrens what other
benefits come from using a framebuffer ?  3) Is is likely that
if I stop using framebuffers altogether the ACPI sleep will have
less problems and therefore could use kernels with less patches
?  Thank you,  Reply to: