From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 29 16:53: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB7E1564E for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (arg@localhost) by arg1.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA18350; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:52:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:52:37 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin Subject: Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes In-Reply-To: <199907292207.SAA01973@smtp2.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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 Maybe your hardware has the windowed and linear buffer access modes active simultaneously, rather than needing to be switched by the BIOS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message