From: Frederic Marmond <fmarmond@eprocess.fr>
To: icepic <icepic1984@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: writing to the videoram
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:43:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EED671A.9000007@eprocess.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00cf01c3336a$92240550$0145a8c0@icepic>
icepic wrote:
>Hi!
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>I have a problem.
>I want to write directly to the videoram under linux.
>Because of the realmode i have some problems..
>can someone explain how it works?
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realmode ?!?
Hey, on which cpu are you??? ;-)
I guess you are on x86 architecture, so, some explainations:
- x86 have 3 main modes of use: real, virtual and protected (plus a
usefull hybrid: flat)
- Linux is on protected mode
- the bootloader (lilo, grub) make the switch from real mode (when you
switch on your PC, it is in real-mode, for 8086 compatibility!) to the
protected mode.
If you want to write to the video memory, one basic thing would be to
write it from the kernel (who have the right to read/write everywhere).
From the user-space, you'll have to ask the write access to the kernel.
Could you please ask a more precise question?!?
Fred
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2003-06-15 18:18 writing to the videoram icepic
2003-06-16 6:43 ` Frederic Marmond [this message]
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