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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support !
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:16:21 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:27:36 -0600
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>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gurtz <jason@tommyk.com> writes:

    Jason> There is the VESA Framebuffer driver in the Linux kernel
    Jason> which will do 16 colors at a reasonable resolution in the
    Jason> console.  Not sure if the BSD's have similar support

FreeBSD has a compatability layer for the Linux VESA bits, but it's use
is thin (some games, IIRC). Anyone running a graphical interface is
running X.

--lyndon