Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:40:46 +0100 (CET) | | From | Marek Habersack <> | | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> >> b) VESA is a DOS-only thing and WE (i.e. THEM) don't need it. > > >On most cards, VESA is provided by a DOS TSR. Do you really > >want to put DOSEMU in the kernel? > > My S3 Virge _BIOS_ has VESA 2.0 Support. VESA 2.0 has Protected Mode And so do most of the modern cards.
> support (for dos extenders). If they designed it right, it should be > possible to use it from within linux too, much like APM. Someone > remembers the QNX demo floppy? They to graphics exactly that way. > Worked fine on my box. Without DOS. True, I remember that one. The VESA VBE 2/3 is designed with the portability in mind - the code can be written in a way that it can be used by the userland software with a MINIMUM kernel support. And that's good, isn't it?
> Well, you don't get accel support that way, but it is still much better > than being not able to use the card at all. You do now. The VBE/AF interface is a clearly defined API that can be used as easily as the VBE Core stuff.
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