From: "Jason Gurtz" <jason@tommyk.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] What a poor VGA support !
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:16:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HBEEKNPPKIMFLJHGHNHMEEDHDJAA.jason@tommyk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206141637.g5EGb4JZ011660@orthanc.ab.ca>
> > 3 BSD : FreeBSD, Open BSD, Net BSD
> > 2 Linux : Debian, Suse
...
>
> As with DOS, none of these operating systems treats the VGA
> device as anything more than a cursor-addressable tty device.
> All the VGA magic is handled by a user-space application: the X
> server.
There is the VESA Framebuffer driver in the Linux kernel which will do
16 colors at a reasonable resolution in the console. Not sure if the
BSD's have similar support
~Jason
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-14 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 14:21 presotto
2002-06-14 11:08 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 14:26 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 16:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-14 20:16 ` Jason Gurtz [this message]
2002-06-15 0:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-17 9:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-16 22:41 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-06-19 8:45 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-17 9:14 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-14 15:51 Russ Cox
2002-06-14 14:42 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-14 9:44 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-14 13:50 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-13 14:47 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 13:16 forsyth
2002-06-13 16:45 ` plan9
2002-06-13 9:29 Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-13 14:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-13 17:46 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-14 14:41 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
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