Yet another sysinstall thread

[John-Mark Gurney]

Martin wrote this message on Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:41 +0100:
> I've been trying to port one of my framebuffer-based linux applications,
> but I ran into problem with VESA-support on the terminal (inconsistent?
> incomplete?) and after even the simpliest VGA-based (320x200) apps
> failed to execute leaving me hanging in graphics mode and panic()ing,
> I gave up. This was my experience with libvgl last year.

I haven't run any apps recently, but it works really easily...  Just have
to do stuff like install a SIGSEGV handler to restore video mode, or
blidly type the vidcontrol command...

Also look at svgalib...  It worked great, and gives you a linear frame
buffer....

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