From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 28 8: 2:20 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 E692E37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C8E43F75 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0SG2DUc074364 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0SG2BMc026726 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0SG2BMS030833; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0SG2AMg030832; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:10 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Wartan Hachaturow Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Higher resolution text modes on alpha? Message-ID: <20030128160210.GW23908@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20030127115014.GA3570@mojo.tepkom.ru> <20030128145305.GA397@mojo.tepkom.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128145305.GA397@mojo.tepkom.ru> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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 message