nanogui: Some q's
Subject:
Re: Some q's
From:
Ben Pfaff ####@####.####
Date:
24 Nov 1999 15:48:36 -0000
Message-Id: <87hfibrj4l.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu>
Juan Antonio Morillas Cerezo ####@####.#### writes:
> > Yes,I have questions about this as well. I wish to someday run ELKS on my
> > Tandy HD 1000
> > laptop (8086 based) and its screen is LCD. Is anyone working on this, or
> > does anyone have any knowledge about it?
>
> At least until I know, lcd screens on laptops
> behave almost the same as a regular vga monitor and
> card on a desktop computer, if your machine is vga
> compatible, you just would fire up ELKS with vga16
> fbcon, if it does have it, of course. Regular text
> console and svgalib would do the same. But I am not
> to date with ELKS progress so I'm not very sure about
> that.
I doubt whether an 8086 machine would be VGA-compatible. It's
more likely MDA or CGA compatible.
