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From:	brucef AT central DOT co DOT nz (Bruce Foley)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Getting SCITECH's SVGALIB running in DJGPP
Date:	Sat, 20 Jul 1996 19:18:09 GMT
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"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca> wrote:

>Hello,

>I'm new to DJGPP, and am wondering if anyone has had any experience
>getting the SCITECH SVGA libraries to work with DJGPP.  I'm wanting
>to do VESA 2.0 graphics using the LFB and am not having much luck.

>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

>Thanks.

Hi.  I've been focusing on SVGA VBE programming lately.
I have started developing a small set of library of functions
(very much work in progress) to support VBE programming.

Since the whole spirit of DJGPP seems to be "share your knowledge",
"share uour code", I am happy to send you through my current
source.  The code I've developed currently supports
real mode banking; protected mode banking; & linear frame buffer.
I have tested it on about 4 different cards so far.  It would be quite
good to test on yours as well :).

One thing I will say is that all the cards I have used use 64K banks &
64K gran.  I wonder what cards have different values than this, as I
have yet to come accross any.  Also, no cards I have tested have
needed me to assign a selector to the protected mode banking code.
(this is required if the pm code needs to use memory mapped
IO ports to talk to the card).  So testing on such a card would also
be good.

Bruce.

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