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SubjectRe: kill -9 <pid of X>
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > > On 17 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > > > As for space I do care - imagine having to do Linux installation
> > > > floppies and having to put 50 video drivers on there which includes
> > > > acceleration code just to get a simple console display ... its bad
> > > > enough with the amount of drivers as it is already.
> > >
> > > I dont think the the KGIcon people want that.. And I know I dont.
> > >
> > > What I would see is a small set of BASIC drivers (like vesafb) that get
> > > you going. If you want/need better performance you can get an optimized
> > > driver and load it at runtime..
> >
> > So when is someone gonna write a simple basic VGA frame buffer device, that
> > does stupid VGA modes (max. 320x256 in 8bpp, 640x480 in 4bpp) only?
>
> isn't this what vgafb did?

Vgafb is VGA _text_ only.

> > I know VGA is banked, but these days there are mmap() hooks in the frame buffer
> > device API.
>
> There are? Can you point me to some documentation?

Use the Source, Luke :-)

Look at th mmap() member function in fb_ops. Currently used on SPARC only.

Greetings,

Geert

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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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