From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] shared memory
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:52:37 -0600
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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"
>