Worth noting that the framebuffer works really well on the Raspberry Pi; you can switch between console and X, all while using the framebuffer. It's even happy

Worth noting that the framebuffer works really well on the Raspberry Pi; you can switch between console and X, all while using the framebuffer. It's even happy switching between bit depths (using 'fbset') at the same time. If you want a really fast framebuffer system, get something like an old Nvidia 7600GT and use 'nvidiafb'; while this won't work with X at the same time, it's blazingly fast and gives brilliant console text output (modern GPUs are super-slow by comparison).