Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:10 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Wartan Hachaturow <wart@tepkom.ru> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Higher resolution text modes on alpha? Message-ID: <20030128160210.GW23908@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030128145305.GA397@mojo.tepkom.ru> References: <20030127115014.GA3570@mojo.tepkom.ru> <b15v50$2u9e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20030128145305.GA397@mojo.tepkom.ru>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:53:05PM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > 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. The Problem is that the BIOS on your graphic card was written for x86 CPUs. SRM emulates an 80286 to initialize the card, but this emulation is not available inside of FreeBSD. Even the 80286 emulation may not be enough for modern cards. There is a lot of work to make the vesa working on non x86 and I doubt that this would be very fast. It's easier to live with X for higher resulutions. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the messagehome | help
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