From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Kendall Bennett <kendallb@scitechsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
penguinppc-team@lists.penguinppc.org
Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:44:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e47339104101610447a393abc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416E6ADC.3007.294DF20D@localhost>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-16 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 19:02 Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 0:27 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-15 18:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:51 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-15 23:20 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-15 23:51 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:58 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:15 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-16 1:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-16 2:03 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-18 19:34 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-18 20:34 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-18 20:47 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-18 21:04 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-18 21:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-18 22:34 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-18 23:28 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 0:18 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-19 0:55 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 1:39 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-19 17:54 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 21:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 17:01 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 19:08 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 19:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 21:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-15 12:05 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-15 12:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-15 12:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-19 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-15 13:13 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-17 12:07 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 8:36 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-18 11:39 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 12:10 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-18 20:21 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-18 20:42 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-10-19 16:57 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-15 18:29 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2004-10-16 9:01 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-15 18:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 13:48 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 18:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:44 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 22:12 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-16 0:41 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-26 11:14 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-27 1:58 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-27 11:11 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-27 19:52 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:51 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2004-10-18 19:34 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 21:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-19 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 17:01 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 17:31 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 18:44 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 19:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 19:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-21 20:47 ` Richard Smith
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2004-10-14 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-14 20:46 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 12:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 20:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-15 22:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:02 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 15:23 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-20 17:27 ` Kendall Bennett
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2004-10-15 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-15 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 22:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-16 1:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-21 11:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-18 11:44 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 19:43 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 17:01 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-19 17:54 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 15:37 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-16 0:55 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-16 12:21 ` Gerd Knorr
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2004-10-21 4:03 Yu, Luming
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