From: Doru MARIN (dmarin@deuroconsult.ro)
Date: Mon 04 Jan 1999 - 16:19:52 IST
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > I have the VBE3.0 specification (they are now available from vesa's > wesite), and it seems that it is possible to write an svgalib driver > that uses VBE3.0 in protected mode. > > The second reuirement (calling a specific address) I don't have an > idea how to do. > > Any help is wanted. There could be a problem with VBE3.0 :) I know about it, I know that it supports even accelerated functions, but there is no implementation of this. The VESA organisation released this spec' to late... Most of the users have only VBE1.2 in their BIOS-es, they can't use even framebuffer because of this. That because the BIOS space limit is set to 32kB. The _BIG_ problem, (allways VESA VBE had this problem) is that there can't be found correct (bugfree) implementations of the VESA specifications. With Windoze domination, there is no interest in supporting VESA specifications, anymore. So, you'll hardly find even a TSR upgrade to VBE2.0. SciTech tried this (you know UNIVBE) for all chipsets, but how can use them in Linux ? If SciTech(www.scitechsoft.com) will decide to support Linux sistems... because with Windows, they have no more hopes to survive. > Matan Ziv-Av. zivav@cs.bgu.ac.il Doru Marin <dmarin@deuroconsult.ro>
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