From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 4 13: 8:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7545737B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from witchspace.com ([213.105.80.222]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20011004200855.VSLT15984.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@witchspace.com> for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 21:08:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3BBCC288.DE8CD20B@witchspace.com> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 21:11:52 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [Q] Information on fb/vesa mode programming Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya I've been trying to find out some information on programming the fb/vesa interface, eg. set_video_mode() and friends. From the few examples I've seen, it appears that you have to muck about with banks rather than use a pointer to linear frame buffer (logo_saver.c, splash.c). Is there no way to access the fb linearly? Does anyone know of any resources giving more information on fb programming? Thanks, -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message