> I tried something like that, too. However I didn't fill up the file -
> I used lseek instead, this way I was only able to access the first
> page. If I tried to access any higher pages it bus-errored. Maybe filling
> it up does the trick - however then the process will get a private copy
> of all pages in this 1Meg - even the ones that are not touched by the BIOS.
> This will give me a 1Meg footprint for each real mode image.
1Meg per videocard is not _that_ bad. It is not worse than using dirty
tricks. If you want 4.0 released some day, I'd suggest to use this and
look at optimizing later.
Pavel
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