Re: Livecd that boots in text mode?

Harold Stevens wrote:
In <8esqv4-4gt.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sinister Midget:

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IOW you want it to run up a console somewhere you can't see on a
screen? That doesn't have anything to do with X. That's just a display
thing.

FWIW I'm confused, too. I don't know a non-trivial way to route a vanilla
Linux display (text or GUI) anywhere except via the video subsystem. That
can very likely be done, but again IMO I don't think it's trivial.

(I'm aware of remote X, $DISPLAY, etc. but IMO it's still standard video)


I don't know how video works either. All I know is that when my PC first comes up I get a readable screen if I go into the bios screens and when the Lilo screen comes up. The livecds also initially show a readable screen. When they boot linux they go into some other video mode as the screen then goes wacko.

I'm just guessing from what I see. I would think that the original readable screen is also going through the graphics system. It must have more than one mode of operation and just because you see a text screen doesn't mean it didn't go through the graphics engine.

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