Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:06:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@smtp2.erols.com> Subject: Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes Message-ID: <199907292207.SAA01973@smtp2.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990729125234.16383A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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On 29-Jul-99 Andrew Gordon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, John Baldwin wrote: >> On 29-Jul-99 Andrew Gordon wrote: >> > >> > Sure. It's rather crude at present, but I've put it up at: >> > >> > http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/vesatv.c >> >> My wincast tv card seemed to work w/o your patch to vesa.c. Although I >> don't >> think it set the resolution right. I need to get to somewhere that I can >> get >> to more than just static though. :) > > Are you running -current? It was pointed out to me that -current already > contains code equivalent to my patch for -stable (I must have been blind > when I looked at the cvs diff and didn't see it). # uname -a FreeBSD john.baldwin.cx 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #3: Thu Jul 1 21:08:59 EDT 1999 root@john.baldwin.cx:/usr/source/src/sys/compile/JOHN i386 > On your 'resolution' problem, did you change it for NTSC? My code is > hard-wired for PAL and the WEUROPE channel set on the tuner - changes > for NTSC should be obvious. Nope. :) That helped a lot. However, it seems to be displaying 640x400 in a 640x480 window. Ahh.. I found the problem, my mode 0x112 is 32bpp instead of 24bpp. A little quick hacking fixed that. Works perfect! >> Once I do, I may try and add some support for changing channels and what >> not, >> if you don't mind. > > Do whatever you like! It looks like I'll also be adding code to auto-detect the color depth and adjust accordingly. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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