From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:09:07 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <09544819dcab84e23d48f6bd0eed24ec@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <09544819dcab84e23d48f6bd0eed24ec@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re: Problem of last update?) Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8b0cff6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > My long-term goal is to eliminate all the vga drivers but vgavesa, > which make up about 10% of the pc kernel port by line count. This may > not be possible due to currently-working graphics cards with broken > vesa bioses nor desirable because the native drivers are vastly faster > than the vesa driver (though I think we're closing that gap), but it's > worth attempting. I've used the vesa driver on my usual plan 9 > terminals and it's hard to see a difference in performance compared > with the native vga drivers. this is a great goal. unfortunately, some of the machines i happen to have have awful performance with the vesa driver. in particular, a scrolling window on my amd sb600 machine will essentially lock up the machine. you can't use the mouse to kill the window. :-(. the nvidia driver (for different hardware in the same machine) performs much better with a bargin bin card. also, is it possible to support resolutions greater than 1600x1200x16 with vesa? - erik