On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Petr Stehlik wrote: > V ?t, 12. 08. 2004 v 14:11, Stephen R Marenka pí¨e: > > > If it's impossible to provide the clean fallback when bogl fails then I > > > am afraid we'd have to give up on the framebuffer altogether. Since > > > forcing the users to always install in monochrome mode (or truecolor) > > > might not be the best option... Or perhaps put all available manpower > > > into fixing bogl? Amiga users would be happy, too. > > > > I can't tell you what the right thing to do is. Probably this should be > > the last of the three. > > I don't understand. You mean to fix the bogl better than adding a > fallback to d-i? I know how to do it but I don't have time. The bogl
Indeed strange... > needs to add a couple of routines: put_pixel, horizontal_line, > vertical_line, draw_character and something for mouse pointer. The code > could be taken from http://emutos.sf.net/ or from any of the free VDI Care to add these to fbtest (CVS module fbtest of http://www.sf.net/projects/linux-fbdev/)? You need to write them for atafb in 2.6 anyway :-) > implementations (fVDI, oVDI) and some code is even in ARAnyM, I think. I guess ARAnyM only handles the other way around (conversion from Atari interleaved bitplanes to chunky)... And fbtest already handles Amiga bitplanes. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
