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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] shared memory
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:52:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731065115.J35477-100000@fbsd.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15685.9057.72875.389455@nanonic.hilbert.space>

the real problem with the sis630 is that it lacks hardware cursor...

i have some ocde that will attempt to get the sis630 going but
when i finally figured out the 'no HW cursor' part i gave up...

andrey

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 paurea@gsyc.escet.urjc.es wrote:

> I am writing (or trying to :-)) the driver for the sis630 vga card. It
> uses shared memory, i.e. the video memory comes from the normal ram of
> the computer. At first it seemed to me I had to reserve memory for it
> like a dma buffer, but after looking more closely to the linux driver,
> it seems to me that something hardware is going on and that the memory
> is reserved some way by the bios works as normal video memory. Does
> anybody know how this should be treated?. Any pointers to info?.
> --
>                  Saludos,
>                          Gorka
>
> "Curiosity sKilled the cat"
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-31 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-29 11:13 paurea
2002-07-29 13:56 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-07-29 13:59   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-07-31 12:52 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2003-09-12  8:33 [9fans] g++ okamoto
2003-09-12  8:43 ` [9fans] shared memory okamoto
2003-09-12  8:48   ` Geoff Collyer
2003-09-12  8:52     ` okamoto
2003-09-12  9:25       ` Geoff Collyer
2003-09-12  9:30         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-09-12 15:33           ` splite
2003-09-12 16:11         ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-12 12:12       ` David Presotto
2003-09-16  3:07         ` okamoto
2003-09-15 13:30           ` okamoto
2003-09-16  4:23           ` Russ Cox

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