zhcon supports three different video drivers: framebuffer (fast), VGA (slow), libggi (slow). On start up zhcon will try to select best driver to use. If the framebuffer device is not available (not compiled into kernel) it will fall back to use VGA driver that works under 640x480x16 color mode, which is quite slow.
To achieve best performance, it is recommended to always use framebuffer driver in (8bit) 256 color mode. Speed will no longer be a problem.
可以看出,需要linux kernel开启framebuffer模块。据说ubuntu一般都默认把此模块编译进内核了,我的gutsy应该也有,所以下一步就是要在grub启动项中开启framebuffer并设置。