[Debian-eeepc-devel] console framebuffer and energy consumption

[Trent W. Buck]

Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes:

>> Also boot with vga=blabla.
> If you're using framebuffer, I think you want video=blabla instead.

I believe vga=N is just an archaic form of video=vesafb:mode=N or so.

>> Does it use more or less energy as the standard console ?
> I don't know.  I would imagine no, it would make no significant
> difference, and that probably brightness makes more of a difference.

fbcon with video=foofb requires more CPU than the vga=normal (80x25)
text console.  That difference should be order(s) smaller than stuff
like backlight brightness.

> [...] if you want accurate figures, measure it yourself.

Hear, hear.