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

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On 11/17/05, David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/17/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > > but zgv for BL3 is statically compiled and would need to be replaced.
> >
> > Is there a dynamic zgv for libc5? Or a dynamic seejpeg? Doesn't SW4
> > have one?
>
> James Miller's semi-static newzgv for libc5 works with the tiny usb
> storage kernel and BL1 (after adding James' libvgagl package). You
> can also use it in BL3 after adding the BL1 vgalib. On either BL, it
> is also possible to use the 'official' libc5 svgalib binaries from
> svgalib.org. However, the official svgalib-bin needs an
> /etc/vga/libvga.config with at least this one line:
>
> chipset VGA

Newzgv will work where the original zgv did not?  Why?
Would it work in BL2 only if we installed libc5?

Would this give you only 16 colors?

I put
chipset VESA
in the config file for chips like SiS, Tseng, Trident and Matrox.

> After you create that, it works perfectly.
>
> David
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