From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Sat 17 Nov 2001 - 22:33:04 IST
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> I recently found out that turning on linear addressing with
> vga_setlinearaddressing() speeds up my code quite a bit on one computer,
> but the other one, which has an i810 chipset, just gives me a black screen
> now.The proper CAPABLE_LINEAR flag is set after doing
> vga_getmodeinfo() on the graphics mode that I want (G800x600x64K), yet
> it doesn't work on that computer.
Which driver do you use on the i810? I assume that vesa driver, so it is
probably a problem in the vesa bios.
> I'm using SVGAlib 1.4.3, perhaps someone knows if this works in the
> newer development versions?
Hopefully, the next development release (1.9.13) will include a working
i810 driver, so this problem should be solved.
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Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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