From: Marty Ross (MartyR@pos.co.il)
Date: Sun 05 Nov 2000 - 17:27:25 IST
Hello,
I've got thousands of lines of DOS code to port to Linux that makes heavy
use of VGA "text mode" and other low level DOS/BIOS architecture / calls
(including loading fonts, setting attributes, and reading keystroke
scan-codes).
At first, I thought for sure that SVGALIB would save me, but now after
playing with it a little bit, I don't see that it has ANY support for text
modes (e.g. standard 80x25 text mode)! Is this true?
I just want to have direct access to text mode memory, including attributes,
etc. I also want keyboard access, including raw scan codes, etc.
For output, am I going to need to use the "undocumented" "console_ioctl()"
calls and perform brute-force direct and uncoordinated access to video
memory myself?
And for input, it appears
Any suggestions or references appreciated,
-- Marty Ross
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