Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:23:19 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Darrin Smart <darrin@suresoftware.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Direct access to VGA card Message-ID: <3B052247.6E0D3FE2@mitre.org> References: <3B045947.49DDF26C@suresoftware.com>
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Darrin Smart wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a rather specialised application that wants to talk directly to > the video card. > > Can anyone point me to some documentation on how to take control of the > console and switch to a non-text mode, in a similar way to XFree86? > > Is it possible to hook into the card's vertical retrace interrupt > without writing a driver? Can you use the vgl(3) driver? It's not very portable, and it's fairly low level, but it would probably do what you want. The only caveat I have is that I've had problems with VGL appls locking up my terminal before (view!), but that may be a fluke with the specialized machines I was working on. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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