Re: Voodoo 3 2000 framebuffer problem

[Bodo Eggert]

DervishD <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
> an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
> mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:800x600-32@100' and I get
> (correctly) 100x37 character grid. All of that is correct. What is
> not correct is the characters attributes, namely the 'blink'
> attribute.

Blinking a whole screen of text is much more expensive than a block cursor.
You'll want hardware support, e.g. some kind of double-buffering or using
240 colors just for that purpose in a 256 color mode.
(I would not implement that.)
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