Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Christoph Egger
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:58:09PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: [snip] I downloaded the file and tried to do the patch but am having no luck. [snip] That patch is extremely old. vesafb support has

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Christoph Egger
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:29:22AM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:58:09PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: [snip] I downloaded the file

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Evan Martin
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:16:24 -0500, Larry said: I really appreciate all this feedback but it doesn't address the origional question of how I go about installing this patch. The command you want is "patch". From the top level of your linux source tree, try: patch -p1 /path/to/the/patch/file

vga hacking

2000-09-08 Thread Lee Brown
I'm new to the ggi thing, so I've been messing around with some kernel programming lately. Soon I'll have a little kernel module that allows you to change modes on your vga card. This was inspired by a previous mailing to this list. I would be willing to document the source code and post

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Andreas Beck
I have come to the conclusion that I have a VESA 1.2 BIOS (I do have a S3Virge). This might well be. At the time Virges were popular, 1.2 was the usual VESA version. I downloaded the file and tried to do the patch but am having no luck. I am posting it here for others to look at that may

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Andreas Beck
I really appreciate all this feedback but it doesn't address the origional question of how I go about installing this patch. The command you want is "patch". From the top level of your linux source tree, try: patch -p1 /path/to/the/patch/file If it can't find the files, you may

Re: Router loop - please fix (fwd)

2000-09-08 Thread Brian S. Julin
traceroute to anoncvs.us.ggi-project.org (209.251.120.6), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 10.5.20.16 (10.5.20.16) 1.681 ms 1.240 ms 1.007 ms 2 24.91.210.1 (24.91.210.1) 12.699 ms 12.701 ms 12.403 ms [...] 14 cost-reduction-service.Atlantaald.cw.net (208.172.72.190) 71.067 ms 71.142

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Larry
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:15:39PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote: Ugh. Sorry about that. Yeah, VESA 1.2 isn't supported _directly_. The patch was intended to patch the kernel so that it WOULD support the VESA 1.2 BIOS. Another way to hack this is to boot DOS first, run a

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Larry
On Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 09:02:02PM -0600, Larry wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:15:39PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote: Ugh. Sorry about that. Yeah, VESA 1.2 isn't supported _directly_. The patch was intended to patch the kernel so that it WOULD support the VESA 1.2 BIOS.

libart thing

2000-09-08 Thread Lee Brown
To whoever said they were working on libart: I think this is a neat thing. I just checked out the web page. I've seen pics and anti-aliasing produces remarkable results. I am just curious about what exactly you are doing to port this to ggi? Lee -- Get your free email from

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-08 Thread Jon M. Taylor
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andreas Beck wrote: I really appreciate all this feedback but it doesn't address the origional question of how I go about installing this patch. The command you want is "patch". From the top level of your linux source tree, try: patch -p1

Re: Router loop - please fix (fwd)

2000-09-08 Thread Jon M. Taylor
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Brian S. Julin wrote: traceroute to anoncvs.us.ggi-project.org (209.251.120.6), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 10.5.20.16 (10.5.20.16) 1.681 ms 1.240 ms 1.007 ms 2 24.91.210.1 (24.91.210.1) 12.699 ms 12.701 ms 12.403 ms [...] 14