Am Montag,  7. Januar 2002 17:04 schrieben Sie:

> None of the existing drivers support planar modes, but your best bet is
> probably to use the linux framebuffer, the fbdev driver, and write a
> linear4p planar Video Base Library based on the linear1 VBL. The svgafb
> driver may be useful to you, but if you already have framebuffer
> support for the modes you want it's better to stick with that.
Ok, I'll try that then.

> Another option would be using a 256-color packed pixel mode. 8bpp
> planar wouldn't be any less troublesome than 4bpp planar. It's been a
> while since i did VGA programming, but i think there's a way to get a
> 320x240 (or maybe 320x400) 8bpp packed-pixel mode.

I thought so too, but about one day of web research found nothing useful,
even svgalib can't do that on standard VGA hardware, so I guess 
nonstandard packed pixel modes only work with hardware specific
SVGA drivers. Even when telling the card to use a 128kb frame buffer
(0xa0000-0xbffff), it still copies the upper 40 lines to the lower part of the
screen.

OTOH, now that I think about it, there /might/ be a 4bpp packed pixel
mode for 320x240. Have you heard about something like that?

Arnd <><

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