linuxconsole-dev

nvidia text mode console

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

Hi,

I wrote a console text mode driver for nvidia card which is not the
primary card in the system. Its usage is similar to mdacon.
The card needs to be initialized before the module is loaded, which can
be done by the bios (if there is support for this in the bios), or the
x86emu package.
If you have more than one nvidia card in the system, use the vram module
option to make sure the module controls the correct card (the one with
the video ram aperture at the given address).


The source code is at http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/nvvgacon.tar.gz



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Matan Ziv-Av.                         ma...@sv...

Re: nvidia text mode console

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

Pretty cool. I added to CVS. 

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

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On Wed, 10 May 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a console text mode driver for nvidia card which is not the
> primary card in the system. Its usage is similar to mdacon.
> The card needs to be initialized before the module is loaded, which can
> be done by the bios (if there is support for this in the bios), or the
> x86emu package.
> If you have more than one nvidia card in the system, use the vram module
> option to make sure the module controls the correct card (the one with
> the video ram aperture at the given address).
>  
> The source code is at http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/nvvgacon.tar.gz