ELC/LFCS2009: A tale of two panels [LWN.net]

ELC/LFCS2009: A tale of two panels

Posted Apr 19, 2009 1:44 UTC (Sun) by jlokier (guest, #52227)
In reply to: ELC/LFCS2009: A tale of two panels by bronson
Parent article: ELC/LFCS2009: A tale of two panels

I'm not sure that X is the only userspace client of "/dev/mem". What about SVGAlib? :-)

Also it would be nice if kernel modesetting for X and DirectFB got along.

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ELC/LFCS2009: A tale of two panels

Posted Apr 19, 2009 20:58 UTC (Sun) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

> I'm not sure that X is the only userspace client of "/dev/mem". What
about SVGAlib? :-)

The above mentioned GGI solved that issue over ten years ago and it seems
to be still available:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/svgalib1-libggi2

Btw. I too had been patching my kernel with KGI when I was still using
mostly console and still compiling my own kernels. KGI patched kernel was
so much nicer to somebody who'd been spoiled by other Unix like operating
systems that provided graphical consoles as KGI was much faster, provided
higher resolutions, higher CRT update frequency etc. than the crappy x86
text-mode based Linux console...