From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 03:23:34 -0400
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy@sour.sw.oz.au
Subject: more VGA stuff
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jmk@plan9.att.com:
> 
> There is a new version of aux/vga available for pickup by ftp, look in the
> pcdist/vga subdirectory (yesterday's vga.386 and vgadb have been removed).
> A description is in the file 'CHANGES'.

I tried out the Aug 8th version of aux/vga, and it worked much better.
The fickering pixels went away, and I got a good clear 1184x888x8
image with a 100MHz dot clock.  However, when I used a 1 (or 4)
bit deep mode, it seemed as though only every second pixel was
being displayed.  Is this something else which needs to be addressed
when pixel multiplexing is turned on in the ramdac?

I also noticed that a hardware cursor is not supported except in
8 bit deep screens; is this a limitation of the #9 GXE64 card, or
in aux/vga (or the kernel driver)?

I'll try the new version out soon, but I didn't see anything in
the changes file which might relate to the 1 bit screen problem,
so I thought I'd mention it.

Thanks,
	J