Re: vesafb in v2.1.110

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:59:27 +0200


> Further to my previous message - I've been experimenting and I *like* this
> 1280x768 @ 256 a lot - vga=ask mode 0307 - and gives 160 columns by 64
> rows. Works a treat and I can see everything incl. the penguin logo.
> Unfortunately, the scroll-back feature doesn't work anymore -
> Geert/Martin, are you aware of this problem?

There is currently no scrollback support for frame buffers which don't
support panning (e.g., vesafb). It would be possible to implement software
scrollback via a buffer, but it seems as a waste of unswappable memory
to me.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"God doesn't play dice."    -- Albert Einstein

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