Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 10:09:10 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: ache@nagual.ru, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syscons screen distortion on Diamond 3D 3000 (S3 Virge/VX) Message-ID: <199703202339.KAA09889@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199703202004.VAA00263@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Mar 20, 97 09:04:06 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > > Well, thats about it, to get a more "perfect" solution big parts of the > code needs to be rewritten in order to do the update asynchronously, in > some way sync to the vertical sync. Some VGA cards can give an int > mostly int 9, others use NMI (ick!) and others has it but fails to > generate the interrupt :( > As I said, no easy clean solution, practically no solution at all :( Er, how about a raster console? (ducks and runs) 8) Or just accept that having a "real" mouse cursor is pointless and use a colour-xor block (text cursor). I dunno; IMHO if you want a cursor, use X 8) > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199703202339.KAA09889>