Re: svgalib + framebuffer

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Mon 26 Jun 2000 - 11:13:16 IDT

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> Now that I have inherited a nice little laptop, I'm now using it
> seriously... the stupid chipset on the card (trident cyber) simply
> refuses to be coerced into doing any VESA 132-column modes, and text
> modes occupy only 50% of the available screen.But with the
> framebuffer, not only do I get an opportunity to impress people by
> putting Tux on display, I can get a nice usable 128x48 screen with a
> font that covers the entire screen.

If that is all you want, then SVGATextMode can do what you want and
leave you in text mode. There might still be some problems with svgalib,
if the card is not supported (as is the cyber), or is supported, but the
driver is buggy.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org

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