> > Hmm - I don't think this card is supported - wait ... - no, I >don't see
> > Trident's anywhere
> Thank you for your reply; so I guess I am out of luck, right?
Well - see below and my offer to guide you in writing a driver I sent you in
PM.
> I suppose there isn't much demand for a driver supporting an old Trident
> chip... :-)
Not sure - Linux is often run on older hardware - the system I'm writing on
is a nowadays humble P-II 266 (well - overclocked to 300 to make it use my
100MHz RAM) ...
> I am just a hobbyist C programmer (with *very* poor knowledge of all kinds
> of "low level" stuff);
As said in PM - low level stuff isn't black magic or something. If you can
write any somewhat complex C program, you can write a driver - just takes
a little getting used to.
> is there any easy way out for me?
Maybe - see below.
> >I.e. you are running VESAfb, then.
> Yes; is there any other framebuffer I may use available on the Intel
> archictecture?
No AFAIK not.
> Sorry if I commited a mistake in calling it "fbcon";
fbcon is the more general term. So you weren't wrong - just not precise.
> >You might want to try enabling the "ypan" and/or "ywrap" options, using a
> >syntax like "video=vesa:ypan,opt2,...".
> I will check the docs for that, thanks!
Should fix much of your speed problem.
> Humm..., that makes it even more interesting, since any requirement for
> VESA compliance (at least VESA 3/2.0 compliance) would force me to keep
> that old 60MB MS-DOS partition around (to run that scitech software
> product I mentioned before booting the kernel).
SDD probably ? Yeah - pretty good product, but actually a bit of a waste,
when the plan is to just run Linux ...
> I guess that's why GGI needs to know about the specific chips, right?
Yeah. It will fiddle with bits and bytes and addresses ;-).
> If it used the VESA interface it really wouldn't be necessary for it
> to "know" about each chip; but then it would also have all the
> incovenient aspects of the VESA framebuffer which are the reason
> why I want to try out GGI, isn't that it? :-)
Yep.
CU, ANdy
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