Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:50:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Martin <nakal@web.de> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Yet another sysinstall thread Message-ID: <20050209215018.GQ19624@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <1107848499.815.30.camel@klotz.local> References: <20050208034855.D211E43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20050208040642.GA37528@xor.obsecurity.org> <1107848499.815.30.camel@klotz.local>
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Martin wrote this message on Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:41 +0100:
> I've been trying to port one of my framebuffer-based linux applications,
> but I ran into problem with VESA-support on the terminal (inconsistent?
> incomplete?) and after even the simpliest VGA-based (320x200) apps
> failed to execute leaving me hanging in graphics mode and panic()ing,
> I gave up. This was my experience with libvgl last year.
I haven't run any apps recently, but it works really easily... Just have
to do stuff like install a SIGSEGV handler to restore video mode, or
blidly type the vidcontrol command...
Also look at svgalib... It worked great, and gives you a linear frame
buffer....
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