Re: FrameBuffer

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
12 Feb 1999 09:50:07 +0100


>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Riedel <riedel@taraz.kz> writes:

Alex> Hi! I have tried yesterday Framebuffer for ATI Mach64. The
Alex> console turns out very beautiful. But why is supported only
Alex> ATI, Matrox or VESA 2.0? How about S3 (Trio, Virge, V2/DX)? In
Alex> kernel there are these of the driver, but only not for x86. It
Alex> seems S3 very much distributed chipset, at least at us so. --

Because the S3 drivers currently in the kernel are _very_ limited in
functionality and relies on the booter (or previously run operating
system) to initialize the board first and will then only take over the
screen.

Jes

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