Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jul 1998 12:50:48 +0200 | From | Jan Kratochvil <> | Subject | Re: S3 High Speed text font support in vgacon.c [patch 2.1.112] |
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On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 10:37:23AM +0000, Yaroslav Rosomakho wrote: > Hello! > Look, if you nkow S3 cards, couldn't you write video frame buffer for S3?
Please see "/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/S3triofb.c". This is probably what you want but unfortunately its not meant for i386 platform but for PowerPC one where the PowerPC init system (like i386 BIOS) initializes the graphical mode for you. After writing the video-mode init code to it it should be usable even on i386 platform. There may be only some problems with different RAMDACs and ClockChips. I plan to eventually look into this later in summer but unfortunately it would require some code-share with XFree in kernel which is like duplicating GGI work. And Linus said that he wouldn't like such code in kernel anyway.
Bye, Lace
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