Re: S3 Video Cards and VESAfb

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:53:39 -0500

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Antonio Miguel Ferreira Marques Trindade wrote:
>
> There is a patch running around that permits you to have VESAfb on S3
> cards with a 1.2 VBE BIOS. My question is: Is it going to be part of the
> mainstream kernels or not?

doubtful, it is a pretty big (though useful) hack

A framebuffer driver for Trios exists at
http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/s3.html

I hope to merge in PPC support and maybe Amiga support too from existing
S3triofb and cyberfb drivers, so there is finally one unified driver.

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