From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Grimes Subject: Why am I shocked? Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:56:52 -0400 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3E91C9F4.9060504@starpower.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.61]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 192ckE-0004WB-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:57:30 -0700 Received: from 66-44-59-111.s365.tnt3.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.59.111] helo=starpower.net) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 192ckC-0004HH-00 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:57:29 -0400 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net I must be insane. I thought that /dev/fb0 was something that just worked... That simply gave an interface to the VESA 2 buffer or, if that fails, the standard VGA area. I was so smug in this assumption that I never bothered to question this and left the machine alone for months and months while I worked to port squeak ( www.squeak.org ) to it. I felt uncomfortable letting such an amazingly powerful dual athlon go to waste so I went looking for a GUI for it.... After considerable effort I managed to get picogui compiled... I try to do a test-run of the thing and quickly discover that my lowly old ATI Rage PRO Turbo based card was not supported at all! -- *incredible*. I had always known that leenooks was a piece of crap but this is astonishing!!!! DOS games recognise the damn thing automaticly - No configuration of any kind required. DOS programs have had the equivalent of framebuffer compatibility for twenty years now!! and _LEENOOKS_, An OS that is supposed to be superior in every way, simply does not support it! I'll cut the kernel devels some slack because ATI is tight-lipped about the specs of its products but not supporting VESA 2 modes is flat-out _UNFORGIVABLE_. What am I going to have to do, install windows XP pro on the thing??? =( ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/