Hey Jasen!

Sep 14 12:08 04, Jasen Betts wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> IIRC you can get the exact same result under linux using the 
 JB> "svgatextmode"
 JB> software, but I don't know of any full-screen editors (etc) for
 JB> linux that support a 40 column display.

Yeah I had some problems with the 40 column display running at 640x480,
whatever bits, using matroxfb.  I haven't looked at the svga libs in many
years now.  Far too slow.

 JB> Linux frambuffers seem to get worse with every new version. With a 
 JB> 2.2 kernel I could get 256 colours, with 2.4 only 16 colour mode will 
 JB> work, with 2.6 it doesn't work at all. perhaps with a 2.0 kernel I 
 JB> can run it in hicolor mode ? :)

Actually with the 2.6 kernels I managed to pull it out of the hat from
2.6.6 upwards.  I started using a rc2 patch yesterday for 2.6.8.1 and lo
and behold there is a VAST improvement, or at least for matroxfb.  I am
impressed.  Still not perfect as I still haven't successfully compiled
mplayer since 2.4.  I am trying it again as we speak.  AHA!  Success!!!  It
just finished.  One sec ... ooops.  mga_vid is complaining about version.h
so I better fix it.  This will take a little while but I think it is
doable.  Getting there.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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