Re: Framebuffer Console Driver

From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Fri 25 Aug 2000 - 19:53:49 IDT

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> http://www.lost.org.uk/svgalib/fbdev2.c
> 
> This is the a fbdev driver written for svgalib 1.9.5 that uses
> the vga driver for the vga modes.
> 
> Note that the VGA driver only works for me if I have a text mode
> console ( fbset -depth 0 ).

Which is not available in most fbdev drivers.
But most cards do not have seperate vga and svga modes (which matrox
cards do have), so it might be enough to use fbdev to a mode where all
the overflow bits are zero (and clocks 0,1 are 25MHz, 28MHz). Such a
mode might be 640x480x256@60Hz.



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