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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:25:16 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes 
Message-ID:  <199907250025.JAA08083@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:41:52 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990725002543.6533B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990725002543.6533B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> 

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>Is there a plan for how to access the linear framebuffer in VESA video
>modes?  So far as I can tell, the current[1] VESA code doesn't support
>enabling the linear framebuffer access at all, even though "vidcontrol -i
>mode" is happy to tell you the details of the buffers that you can't get
>access to!
>
>[1] actually, I'm working in -stable, but at a quick glance the -current
>code is the same in this area.

Actually -CURRENT sets up the linear framebuffer if available.

>I have used the following hack to make it work for my purposes:
[...]

The vesa module in -CURRENT does basically the same as your patch.

Kazu


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