Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:22:19 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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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
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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