From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:44:23 -0400 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <9e47339104101610447a393abc@mail.gmail.com> References: <416E6ADC.3007.294DF20D@localhost> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CIsbS-0005Ju-6Z for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:44:26 -0700 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.194] helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CIsbR-0000tS-KK for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:44:26 -0700 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so64273rnk for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:44:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <416E6ADC.3007.294DF20D@localhost> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Kendall Bennett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, penguinppc-team@lists.penguinppc.org > What this means is that it should be possible to build a new version of > the VESA framebuffer console driver for the Linux kernel that will have > these important features: > > 1. Be able to switch display modes on the fly, supporting all modes > enumerated by the Video BIOS. > > 2. Be able to support refresh rate control on graphics cards that support > the VBE 3.0 services. How is this going to work if there are multiple graphics cards installed? Each card will want to install it's own VBE extension interrupt. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl