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Date:      Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:52:37 +0100 (BST)
From:      Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@smtp2.erols.com>
Subject:   Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990730005104.18264A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199907292207.SAA01973@smtp2.erols.com>

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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.



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