When I was in college several years back, the NVidia card on my only computer, a Dell laptop, failed. X stopped working but framebuffer driver still works. I wa

When I was in college several years back, the NVidia card on my only computer, a Dell laptop, failed. X stopped working but framebuffer driver still works. I was not tech competent back then and didn't know exactly what went wrong. I spent more than 1 month with only CLI. Perspective from a CJK user: - To show and type Chinese, you need tools like zhcon/fbterm. - You'll need to deal with encoding issues when ssh to remote server, or telnet to a terminal based BBS. luit is a good tool for that. GNU screen also have this built-in and in some cases better than luit.