Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 1998 20:36:56 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: Kernel videocard support YES or NO? |
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Harald Koenig wrote: > On Mar 29, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > * There is already fbcon for other (non-PC) architectures. > > don't know very less about `other architectures' except a bit > on DEC AXP. and here X11 works fine right now and AFAIK > fbcon is no real problem running XFree86 (is it? don't know > too much here...)
On machines with VGA text mode, `fbcon' uses `vgacon'[*], a VGA text (80x25) mode driver on top of the abstract console driver. Since the user space abstraction doesn't change, X keeps on working like it did before.
On machines with frame buffer devices, we have XF68_FBDev.
Greetings,
Geert
[*] Now you all see why the system shouldn't be called `fbcon', but `abstract console driver'. There are drivers for frame buffer devices (fbcon), VGA text (vgacon) and TI TMS340x0 boards (gspcon). -- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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