Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:16:21 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Barry Perryman <perryman@sun001.sil.com> Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? Message-ID: <199603270916.BAA00679@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:53:05 GMT." <Pine.3.05.1.9603270802.C8336-a100000@sun001.sil.com>
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>>> Barry Perryman said: > > On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > > Darren Reed =E9crit / writes: > >=20 > > > Linux has some table of the things, and before it did this, it would > > > somehow "probe" the card and give a (not complete) list of available > > > modes. > >=20 > > Doesn't Linux use some sort of ModeLine (just like XFree), and u= > se > > it to drive the console at any frequency and/or resolution ? > > That's the SVGA console, from what I remember the normal linux > console doens't require any special setup files. > The last time I took a look at the linux svga thingy it was primitive at best . The best thing to do is to convert the bottom part of XFree86 to a library with a little patience it can be done. Worst possible scenario is to use the whole X server as a library which is not a bad idea. Amancio
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