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From: rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com
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To: martin@phoenix.princeton.edu, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] escape from vga hell?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:22:11 -0400
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regarding 16-color vga mode:
  Yes, great, do it.  You'll want to map all 16-colors to
  16-bit grey to make things work, but other than that
  I really expect that it should be okay.

  The other issue is reintroducing the software cursor,
  which we haven't done.  It's been easier to just keep
  writing hardware cursor code (it's usually quite small),
  and having the hardware cursor makes debugging the
  VGAs a little easier (when the cursor works and the video
  image is wrong, that means you've messed up the
  memory timings).

regarding the memory aperture:
  Send me your vgainfo.txt and we'll get that aperture
  recognized, at the least.

Russ