From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support ! From: andrey mirtchovski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:42:06 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ad98fdf2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> I will say, though, that Plan 9 would be a lot more widely useful >> if it contained a "generic" VESA driver in order to support new >> video cards as soon as they appear. Xfree86 has one that perhaps >> could serve as the starting point for a Plan 9 driver. i had a look at the X86 vesa driver -- at the time it seemed like this is the only way to get the SiS630 on-board vga going... waht stopped me from investigating further was the lack of hardware cursor... i simply gave up...