linuxconsole-dev

RE: MDA video detection request.

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

> How about (found somewhere in net):
> 
> btw: is someone to do hi-resolution(80x43) for hercules (hga not mda -
> cards) ?

Thanks for the info. I will look it over. As for hi resolution for
hercules. I like to see this too :-) If someone will make a pacth for me I
will gladly accept it.

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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Re: MDA video detection request.

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> > The system has both vga card and mda card, so the vga test will not
> > fail. The light pen ports are not available on mda cards, but only on
> > hercules and compatibles.
> 
> If you are trying to detect the primary adapter the check is correct the VGA
> is the primary 

Right now I have one vga card in my system. I wanted to test to see if
mdacon initialization would failed if the system lacked a mda card. For
my system it didn;t fail but seen my vga card as a mda card :-( I also
wanted to test this so if I do have vga and mda card that the mdacon
driver doesn't go for the wrong card. 

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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fbdev/console/gfx developer                             \ o.O| 
http://www.linux-fbdev.org                               =(_)= 
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RE: MDA video detection request.

[Matan Ziv-Av <ma...@sv...>]

> > btw: is someone to do hi-resolution(80x43) for hercules (hga not mda -
> > cards) ?
> 
> Thanks for the info. I will look it over. As for hi resolution for
> hercules. I like to see this too :-) If someone will make a pacth for me I
> will gladly accept it.

This is fbdev stuff, and is already done. Look at hgafb bt Ferenc
Bakonyi at http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/hgafb.shtml



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Re: MDA video detection request.

[Pavel M. <pa...@su...>]

Hi!

> > How about (found somewhere in net):
> > 
> > btw: is someone to do hi-resolution(80x43) for hercules (hga not mda -
> > cards) ?
> 
> Thanks for the info. I will look it over. As for hi resolution for
> hercules. I like to see this too :-) If someone will make a pacth for me I
> will gladly accept it.

fbcon support for hercules is already in kernel! It can
happily do higher resolutions.

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