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From: sl@9front.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange VGA thing
Date: Fri,  1 Aug 2014 23:10:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9e9d98685a8942edb41fcba69fa6b1b@x301.inri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42a6cb1e4ceb071cc70970b60128dd51@jitaku.localdomain>

> > realmodemem file is provided by the '#P' kernel device.
> > realmode file is provided by aux/realemu.
>
> 9/pc/devvesa.c has both of them.
>
> My interesting poit is why I have 1400x1050x16 display
> which should be vesa mide.

The workings of realemu are explained in the realemu(8) man page. Basically,
the realemu program provides the /dev/realmode synthetic file.

sl



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-02  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01 23:48 kokamoto
2014-08-02  0:00 ` Nick Owens
2014-08-02  3:02   ` kokamoto
2014-08-02  3:10     ` sl [this message]
2014-08-03 23:48     ` kokamoto
2014-08-04  2:31       ` kokamoto
2014-08-06  4:29         ` kokamoto
2014-08-02  0:01 ` sl
2014-08-02  1:15   ` erik quanstrom

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