From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason Gurtz" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: [9fans] What a poor VGA support ! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200206141637.g5EGb4JZ011660@orthanc.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:16:21 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aded3340-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > 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 --