Thanks to all of you who responded.
I am getting an education here. This is great!
Mike Enriquez newbie

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 06:41, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> Mike Garfias wrote:
> 
> >I can't say for sure (never used mandrake), but 'fb', generally refers to
> >'frame buffer'.  This is a kernel driver that runs the vid card, that X talks
> >to to display the GUI.
> >
> >mike enriquez spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> >  
> >
> >>I set up a dual boot with Mandrake and the choices I get at boot up are:
> >>Linux
> >>Linux nonfb
> >>and of course the other one.
> >>
> >>What is "nonfb" I know this must be a silly question for all the pros
> >>out there but this is a newbie asking?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Mike Enriquez
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
> You'll find the frame buffer device[1] as an option in KNOPPIX as well.  
> It's there as a sort of a fail safe mode for video, especially with 
> older laptops.  It assures that if the hardware changes you can still 
> boot into x window.  The friendly penguin (one per processor) at the top 
> of the screen tells you you're in frame buffer mode.
> 
> Dennisk
> [1] A framebuffer device is an abstraction for the graphic hardware. It 
> represents the frame buffer of some video hardware, and allows 
> application software to access the graphic hardware through a 
> well-defined interface, so that the software doesn't need to know 
> anything about the low-level interface stuff [Taken from Geert 
> Uytterhoeven's framebuffer.txt in the linux kernel sources]  [Ed: quoted 
> in http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html]
> 
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