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

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

In parallels I have 1920x... using the vesa driver.


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.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.
>
> this is a great goal.
>
> unfortunately, some of the machines i happen to have
> have awful performance with the vesa driver.  in particular,
> a scrolling window on my amd sb600 machine will essentially
> lock up the machine.  you can't use the mouse to kill the
> window.  :-(.  the nvidia driver (for different hardware
> in the same machine) performs much better with a bargin
> bin card.
>
> also, is it possible to support resolutions greater than
> 1600x1200x16 with vesa?
>
> - erik
>
>