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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1018 comp.os.linux.misc:10804 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!bcm!gazette.bcm.tmc.edu!rich From: rich@id.tmc.edu (Rich Murphey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: DOOM for X Date: 12 Mar 1994 09:25:26 GMT Organization: Physiology & Biophysics, UTMB Lines: 21 Message-ID: <RICH.94Mar12032626@id.tmc.edu> References: <2lm9ih$6s5@godot.cc.duq.edu> <glen.763349922@paladine> <markus.57.00E736E9@rsvl.unisys.com> <hastyCMJL20.Mr4@netcom.com> Reply-To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: b.slip.bcm.tmc.edu In-reply-to: hasty@netcom.com's message of Sat, 12 Mar 1994 08:03:35 GMT In article <hastyCMJL20.Mr4@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: |From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) |Xref: bcm comp.os.386bsd.apps:1088 comp.os.linux.misc:11460 |In article <markus.57.00E736E9@rsvl.unisys.com> markus@rsvl.unisys.com (Mark K Vallevand) writes: |>In article <glen.763349922@paladine> glen@paladine.ece.jcu.edu.au (Glen Harris) writes: |Well, at least with the S3 801/928,864 we can map the entire cards |video memory into a user space. Linux (whatever version is at ) can |can do this --- if memory does not fail me XFree86 for linux does this. | |There was a limitation on FreeBSD which prevented us from mapping |the entire S3's memory. With the latest release of FreeBSD we should |be able to do it also. The next binary release of XFree86 for FreeBSD will support memory mapping the entire frame buffer in user space (the MITSHM extension). You also need a kernel configured with the SYSVSHM (System V shared memory) option. The distributed FreeBSD kernel binaries don't include it yet, so as it stands you'll have to compile a kernel for it. Rich -- `Women, children and the rhythm section first..' -Jaco Pastorius