On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 12:49 +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: My apologies for the delayed response. I had problems with my ISP. > uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced > version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1]. > > uvesafb uses a userspace helper application (v86d, [2]) to run the x86 > Video BIOS code. This makes it possible to include in uvesafb all the > standard features (refresh rate control, video mode changes etc) that > are missing from vesafb without resorting to ugly hacks such as the ones > used in [1]. The current implementation of v86d can use either LRMI or > x86emu to run the BIOS code and supports both x86 and x86_64. > > [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ > [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ >
This is cool, I had a similar project before (which did work) but abandoned it. In fact, it need not be restricted to vbe, as long as the userspace daemon can interpret VESA. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
