Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:58:45 +0000 (GMT)
> The idea of a generic VESA 1.0 video driver has been kicked around
> the GGI mailing list a few times in the past as a quick 'n dirty way of
> giving virtually every card at least dumb framebuffer support. The
> problems with this concept is that VESA 1.0 is real-mode. A driver that
> suppored it would basically have to open a vm86() box upon initialization
> and keep it open as long as the driver module was loaded. Not exactly
> fast or elegant, but it might work.
There has been limited parallel thinking along the lines of using fbcon
(the generic existing frame buffer layer) and dropping the machine into
800x600 (etc) 16bit true colour always for handling irritant companies like
neomagic. That was on the "set it at boot" basis. Pulling off vesa calls
at any time would be interesting but worth seeing.
Alan
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