Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:10:13 +0400 (MSD) From: Alexey Pialkin <pialkin@abel.pdmi.ras.ru> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, j_mini@efn.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New doscmd available for testing/munching Message-ID: <199609251210.QAA11894@abel.pdmi.ras.ru> In-Reply-To: <199609251152.VAA09253@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 25, 96 09:22:35 pm
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> > Alexey Pialkin stands accused of saying: > > > Actually, you mmap /dev/vga which roots at the base of video memory. This > > > is much cleaner, not to mention safer. > > > > BTW, why ? > > Because you're mapping the video card's memory, not "generic memory". > If the card is somewhere else, then you don't have to worry about it. > If Soren wakes up and changes it just a little bit, you will _only_ be > able to map the region of memory that the card decodes into. Nice. But it doesn't matter for us - because if the card will not located at normal addresses it will not VGA - so we will not able to properly work with it in virtual console mode. > > BTW, we don't need to compare somthing for ncurses - it makes all automatic > > & redraw quite nice... At least on my home my new unoptimized ncurses support > > works much faster than Xs :).. But that's not a surprise :) > > Hmm? I presume you are using ncurses' internal compare-and-redraw > algorithm then 8) Yes :) And it works more than nice.. At least by now i don't whant anything else :)))) Alexey Pialkin
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