From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 28 6:53:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A1837B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tepkom.ru (mail.tepkom.ru [195.9.10.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CA443E4A for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:53:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wart@mojo.tepkom.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.tepkom.ru (Postfix) with SMTP id 70F32971F8 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:55:23 +0300 (MSK) Received: from mojo.tepkom.ru (mojo.tepkom.ru [195.9.10.30]) by mail.tepkom.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C7D971D9 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:55:23 +0300 (MSK) Received: from wart by mojo.tepkom.ru with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18dX6n-00006o-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:53:05 +0300 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:53:05 +0300 From: Wartan Hachaturow To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Higher resolution text modes on alpha? Message-ID: <20030128145305.GA397@mojo.tepkom.ru> References: <20030127115014.GA3570@mojo.tepkom.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:04:32PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Yes, because there is no standard for programming graphics cards > beyond the ancient VGA capabilities. With VESA, you can access the > card-specific BIOS for this work. Sure, I understand that. The question was more like "anyone seen the project on running, say, vesa module on non-x86?" :) As far as I understand, vesa module uses int 10h to access the VGA bios, wich isn't true on non-x86. -- Regards, Wartan. "Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message