Re: fbdev and S3 chips

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:46:45 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Antonio M. Trindade wrote:

>
> Is anyone thinking of directly supporting S3 chips in fbdev for x86
> other than S3 Trio and S3 Virge?

Yes, and someone has. Check out KGIcon at www.ggi-project.org. The
KGIcon drivers act as normal fbdev loadable kernel module drivers, but we
support most older S3 chipsets as well as Trio and Virge.

> Just another related question: is it possible to load some kind of VESA
> 2.0 BIOS drivers like Scitech Display Doctor for DOS and then load Linux
> through Loadlin and work with the vesafb driver?

Yes. Exactly what you said.

Jon

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