nanogui: vuilding for vga16
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] vuilding for vga16
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jul 2002 17:35:11 -0000
Message-Id: <02cd01c22f48$7876d640$3aba46a6@xmission.com>
: I have an old 486 laptop here that has a Promise VGA chipset in it
: connected to a 640*480*256 colour LCD, and it runs much faster under
: Windows 3.1 at 256 colours than Microwindows does using VGA16 mode. I
: wonder if we could adapt the Linux VGA16 framebuffer driver to support
: some of the other standard VGA modes?
I think the problem here is that not all BIOS's support the extended
modes for > 16 colors. Thus the VESA bios driver.
Regards,
Greg
