Re: VESA driver

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From: matan@svgalib.org
Date: Tue 05 Dec 2000 - 08:07:23 IST


On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Kevin D. Quitt wrote:

> >The VESA driver in 1.4.2 can do linear addressing, but your card needs to
> >be VESA 2.0 compliant. The driver in the pre-2.0 developpement releases
> >works, let us say, not as often as the 1.4.2 does.
> 
> Curious - when I look at the VESA driver, the DriverSpecs structure has
> NULLs for the functions that would enable it to check and set the extended
> features.Obviously, I'm dealing with a bogus copy of the 1.4.2 library.
> Where can I get the real one?

Linear is not an extended feature. It is controlled by the function
vesa_linear, which you can find in the DriverSpecs structure. I know for
sure that linear works with the vesa driver on a Riva TNT2.


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Matan Ziv-Av                          matan@svgalib.org


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