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SubjectRe: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
Hi!

> > > Graphics mode will become very much mainstream, but you will
> > > never lose textmode, IMO.
> > You wish. Modems will always have UARTs and printers...
>
> There are already chipsets that emulate text mode (incidentally the uni compsoc
> actually got a prehistoric dual board 8bit 768x1024 paperwhite card thats
> 1980's and does this).
>
> Thats one reason for getting fbcon support working for some SVGA cards as
> well as giving the option to run consoles without the 512 symbols displayable
> limitation.

How does fbcon work with hardware acceleration? [Once we solve
acceleration issue somehow, we can get rid of GGI and use fbcon
instead. But - I'm not sure if such thing even can be done. With
cards having critical registers neer non-critical ones :-( ]

Pavel

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I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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