Re: S3 High Speed text font support in vgacon.c [patch 2.1.112]

Yaroslav Rosomakho (alons55@dialup.ptt.ru)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:05:54 +0000


Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 10:37:23AM +0000, Yaroslav Rosomakho wrote:
> > > Look, if you nkow S3 cards, couldn't you write video frame buffer for S3?
> >
> > Please see "/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/S3triofb.c". This is probably
> > what you want but unfortunately its not meant for i386 platform but for
> > PowerPC one where the PowerPC init system (like i386 BIOS) initializes the
> > graphical mode for you.
>
> Yes indeed. The Trio is initialized by Open Firmware in some machines. It isn't
> in mine :-(

By, what about S3 ViRGE? There is a nice DOS TSR Prog ( like small univbe) for S3
chips - s3vbe20. It "makes" avery S3 cardVBE 2.0 compliant. Could anyone integrate
something like this prog into kernel?

>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Geert
>
> --

Yaroslav Rosomakho

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