Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:53:05 +0300 From: Wartan Hachaturow <wart@tepkom.ru> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Higher resolution text modes on alpha? Message-ID: <20030128145305.GA397@mojo.tepkom.ru> In-Reply-To: <b15v50$2u9e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20030127115014.GA3570@mojo.tepkom.ru> <b15v50$2u9e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:04:32PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Yes, because there is no standard for programming graphics cards > beyond the ancient VGA capabilities. With VESA, you can access the > card-specific BIOS for this work. Sure, I understand that. The question was more like "anyone seen the project on running, say, vesa module on non-x86?" :) As far as I understand, vesa module uses int 10h to access the VGA bios, wich isn't true on non-x86. -- Regards, Wartan. "Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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