Re: S3 Frame Buffer

Ian Eure (ieure@crosssound.narrows.com)
Mon, 31 May 1999 12:35:32 -0700

Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Me too in a 2.2.5 / Virge3DX Perhaps a good idea get it into kernel
> > > tree....
> >
> > Start by turning from an S3 hack on vesafb into a nice generic fb driver
> > that matches known PCI idents and setup code so you can have a clean
> > multichip driver.
>
> That's actually what it does.
>
> It should probably be marked "Selective Vesa 1.2 driver" rather than "S3
> LFB hack".
>
So I take it that this provides no hardware accelleration? How about
video mode changes without rebooting and specifying a different
resolution to LILO?

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