Re: [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re: Problem of last update?)

[Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:36 PM,  <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>
> My long-term goal is to eliminate all the vga drivers but vgavesa,
> which make up about 10% of the pc kernel port by line count.  This may
> not be possible due to currently-working graphics cards with broken
> vesa bioses nor desirable because the native drivers are vastly faster
> than the vesa driver (though I think we're closing that gap), but it's
> worth attempting.  I've used the vesa driver on my usual plan 9
> terminals and it's hard to see a difference in performance compared
> with the native vga drivers.
>

The problem for me is that many times the vesa modes do not match
the native resolutions on flat screens. This is specially bad in laptops.
I may be wrong but as far as I understand this you
can only use with vesa the modes printed by aux/vga
which are the modes hardwired in the Bios, ¿am I wrong?. I know some
drivers in linux (like in my old vaio) rewrite this modes, would this
be a solution
for this problem?. I don't know nearly enough about vesa...
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