Re: vesa & v2.1.109
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 23:57:28 +0100 (BST)
> > He does have a DOS UNIVBE driver that actually adds VESA 2.0 emulation to
> > the graphic cards that are limited to VESA 1.2, so it is possible to write
> > a vesafb 1.2 module that adds vesa 2.0 functionality.
>
> Remember that vesafb is only a hack to get usable text/graphics on
> undocumented chipsets such as NeoMagic working. For usual well-supported
> video cards it's of little use.
There are a couple of exceptions to the above. Most notably the Cyrix
MediaGX where the bitmapped direct console (KGI in this case right now)
is visibly faster than the text mode emulation the firmware does
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