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