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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > > > Xvesa seems like a much greater threat to data since
> > > > I lose my cursor and my half-typed mails.
> > >
> > > Definitely. You'll have to decide if the small size and complexity of
> > > Xvesa make up for the security and stability risks. Xfbdev seems more
> > > stable, but you need a kernel with rramebuffer support.
>                                       ^ what happens when I'm
>                                       in a hurry
>
> > Also a VESA 2.0 video card, I think.  Mine are 1.2.
>
> Depends on the driver you use. If you use the vesa driver, it's 2.0.
> However, there are also FB drivers for vga16 and quite a few other cards.

Where would I look for something for S3 Trio64V or Virge, both VESA 1.2? 
Could you set up something that would work with BL2 and BL3, assuming 
certain minimal hardware (1280 monitor, 2MB RAM) that would be 
transferrable between machines?  I had a difficult time with Xsvga 
answering all those questions about the card and monitor and don't want to 
go through this with every new computer.

But Xvesa is really a pain if I want to use more than 80 columns.  Just 
got a nice ATI card that does 100 columns.

I have two PS/2 mice that won't work with Xvesa, one that won't work with 
svgalib.  Are they also fussy about FB?

svgalib appears to be limited to 1280x1024x256 colors.  Would links2 run 
in more than this with FB?  Not that I need more colors, just curious.

> David
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