Lee Olsen writes: > > > I'll assume later means in Init, when screens and entities are available > rather than in Probe.
Right. PreInit() may be a good place. > Currently vesa and vga are separate drivers. Since the vesa probe > ensures X -configure will > never create a vga device entry, perhaps the vesa driver should load the > vga stuff as a submodule > when faced with a non-vesa vga card. That removes the need for int10 at > probe time and > addresses X -configure; startx resulting in "No screens found". Or I can > throw the card away. No, I'm not talking about the VGA driver. This is doing HW VGA. I was referring to VGA purely via BIOS. There are a few 'graphics' mode that have been standarized back in these days. > > The vbeModes thing looks like it should look at the memoryModel before > computing depth. Right. The vesa driver needs some serious reworking. In the mean time other VBE functions have been introduced in xfree86/vbe and a lot of cruft can go away. Also I've noticed this driver does some nasty things to handle DPMS. This can be done using the BIOS, too. For a good reference look at the i810 driver (the i830 part) drivers/i810/i830_driver.c. > Direct color is model 6, and adding the mask sizes is correct. Packed > pixel is mode 4 and the masks > are meaningless. I chose to use bits per pixel, as that's what the vesa > driver uses for selecting > its frame buffer functions. > Right. Anything below 8 would be packed. 8 isn't packed but it doesn't have masks either as you are free to assing any color to any value thru the colormap (this way you can define your own masks). Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
