From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Frank Mehnert <fm3@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Asynchronous Video Console für Linux?
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:36:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011222193646.A227@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011218010300.B37@toy.ucw.cz> <E16HZuu-00025K-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16HZuu-00025K-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Hi!
> > > are there exist any projects for connecting video consoles to the Linux
> > > kernel asynchronous? We would like to write a Linux video console for a
> > > (comparatively) slow device which is able to run simple console
> > > applications upto the fbdev X-server.
> > >
> > > Please cc your answer to me.
> >
> > I do not know about any such project and yes it would be nice.
> >
> > Its bad to see find / limited by vesafb speed...
>
> There is no fundamental reason you cannot do this. For the kernel side the
> console driver in text mode already gives you the 80x25 + attributes image
> that you can use to do asynchronous video updates however your hardware
> works.
I never said it was hard to write... And it would make sun4 usable as
terminal, and would greatly help on vesafb machines.
Pavel
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no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-22 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 15:23 Frank Mehnert
2001-12-18 1:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-22 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 18:36 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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