From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 24 17:22:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9854314F30 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:OU9h1BGBcVLOxocaQFpchzbJ31pAUGlf@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id JAA19682; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:20:59 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id JAA08083; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:25:17 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199907250025.JAA08083@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Andrew Gordon Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:41:52 +0100." References: Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:25:16 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Is there a plan for how to access the linear framebuffer in VESA video >modes? So far as I can tell, the current[1] VESA code doesn't support >enabling the linear framebuffer access at all, even though "vidcontrol -i >mode" is happy to tell you the details of the buffers that you can't get >access to! > >[1] actually, I'm working in -stable, but at a quick glance the -current >code is the same in this area. Actually -CURRENT sets up the linear framebuffer if available. >I have used the following hack to make it work for my purposes: [...] The vesa module in -CURRENT does basically the same as your patch. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message