Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:14:42 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: vesa & v2.1.109 |
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alex Buell wrote: > I've just realised that my graphic card is VESA 1.2 compliant and not VESA > 2.0. Could this account for some people having problems using the vesafb > console? If that is so, it might be a nice idea to add an additional > vesafb module (say vesafb 1.2), and rename the vesafb to vesafb 2.0? This > might help to keep the legacy 1.2 graphic cards working with Linux's > vesafb.
AFAIK (I'm no VGA expert at all) you need VBE 2.0 to get a _linear_ frame buffer. There's no support for mapped-in-64K-window stuff, and it's not trivial to add it.
Greetings,
Geert
-- 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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