Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:38:01 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: [patch #2] vesafb: panning and palette changes using bios |
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On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 11:56:28AM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Alex Buell wrote: > > > > Next step ahead: vesafb uses the protected mode interface for palette > > > changes too. > > > > Does it only does this on initialisation? > > No, for all palette changes. This should make gfx boards which have not > the standard vga palette registers (MediaGX?) work with vesafb. Here is > the patch (against vanilla 2.1.115). > > Gerd
Works great on my Millenium. Thanks!
I do prefer matroxfb anyway, because it allows me to set arbitrary resolutions with fbset and to customize the timings.
But I do think, vesafb is now accpetable for anybody having a VESA2 gfx device.
-- Kurt Garloff, Dortmund <K.Garloff@ping.de> PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
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