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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: programming the VGA Message-ID: <1993Mar9.044431.4722@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Feb28.023635.8555@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1ng8e4$esa@sax.sax.de> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 04:44:31 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1ng8e4$esa@sax.sax.de> joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >In article <1993Feb28.023635.8555@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs3ia3ar@maccs.mcmaster.ca (anonymous) writes: >>386bsd-0.1. I want to switch video modes to one of my svga modes and then >Whatsa video mode??? Funny old dos stuff... blow it out off your mind, >or revert to dos, if you feel that's better. A matter of semantics there is a need to program the vga cards directly for non-X applications. To mention one need: performance. There are others but I am going to leave at that. I much prefer to present my solution rather than get into in a long discussion. > >If you just wanna program X, refer to any literature, or have a look >into the various demo programs. > > - J"org >-- >>>>>>>> J"org Wunsch <<<<<<< : joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de >If anything can go wrong... : alias: joerg@sax.de, > .o .o : wutcd@hadrian.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de, > <_ ... IT WILL! : joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming