Re: Framebuffer Console Driver

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Mon 21 Aug 2000 - 19:37:53 IDT


> I've written an svgalib driver that uses the linux framebuffer device.
> I currently have two versions.One that will run without root privs
> with a few "if (CHIPSET = FBDEV)"s around some resource allocation
> in vga.c but does not work with the VGA modes or the BACKGROUND hack.
> The other works more like a normal svgalib driver and uses the vgadrv
> for the VGA modes but I've not got this working properly yet.

Great. Have a look at svgalib-1.9.5, and see if you can integrate the
resource allocation easier (1.9.5 is working without root privileges
using a kernel module I wrote).

> I can put the code for the first one up tonight but I am having problems
> with the other.

If you show even a non-working version, I might be able to help.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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