From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ati radeon support
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:46:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1159162c18934f441cb43182d9cd36f@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3308f46c395bce82502b731fc273af8b@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> I haven't ever looked at VESA, so forgive me if this is a stupid question:
> once you have used VESA to set up the hardware, if you know how to drive the
> hardware cursor is there anything stopping you from doing that? Usually,
> writing the code for a hardware cursor is fiddly but not hard.
no... just that if you're doing that, you still need to have *some*
sort of graphics-card specific driver, whereas the potential bonus of
using VESA graphics is that you can use almost any card regardless of
driver availability.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-03 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 21:23 Hugo Santos
2003-10-01 22:01 ` mirtchov
2003-10-02 0:55 ` okamoto
2003-10-02 8:11 ` Christian Grothaus
2003-10-02 8:31 ` Christian Grothaus
2003-10-02 18:56 ` Hugo Santos
2003-10-02 19:07 ` mirtchov
2003-10-03 8:43 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-03 12:53 ` paurea
2003-10-03 13:12 ` rog
2003-10-03 13:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 14:34 ` jmk
2003-10-03 14:46 ` rog [this message]
2003-10-03 17:59 ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-03 18:28 ` jmk
2003-10-03 19:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 23:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 9:07 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-03 9:17 ` Atanas Bachvaroff
2003-10-03 9:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 11:42 ` C H Forsyth
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