On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:36 PM, <ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote: > > My long-term goal is to eliminate all the vga drivers but vgavesa, > which make up about 10% of the pc kernel port by line count. This may > not be possible due to currently-working graphics cards with broken > vesa bioses nor desirable because the native drivers are vastly faster > than the vesa driver (though I think we're closing that gap), but it's > worth attempting. I've used the vesa driver on my usual plan 9 > terminals and it's hard to see a difference in performance compared > with the native vga drivers. >
The problem for me is that many times the vesa modes do not match the native resolutions on flat screens. This is specially bad in laptops. I may be wrong but as far as I understand this you can only use with vesa the modes printed by aux/vga which are the modes hardwired in the Bios, ¿am I wrong?. I know some drivers in linux (like in my old vaio) rewrite this modes, would this be a solution for this problem?. I don't know nearly enough about vesa... -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
