Re: Hercules Graphics Card

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:51:50 +0100


Hi!

> I'm too using this, mostly because I like it, got up with it, and it's better than those pixelled displays today. And who needs colours?
> For me, it says (2.4.0-prerelease) I'd got a HGC with 8 kB of RAM.
> This surely isn't true because under DOS some pgmz work problemless
> which use the whole 64K of &hB0000 to &hBFFFF (when I deactivate the VGA
> card), and even Turbo Debugger 1.0's dual-screen option works in both gfx and
> text mode, with the other card as debugging display in text mode, no matter whether the PGM uses HGC or VGA as primary display.
> I'm sorry I've got no correction, but prolly you could try to read-modify-write-read-write_original, and compare the read value with the written bzw. the original.
> And - do we get a HGC gfx framebuffer hgc1fb? (Btw, the vga16fb must
> be called vga4fb - it uses 4 bit colour, not 16)

Yes. I'm using it on my HGC to display graphics. It is called hgafb
(or so?) and included in 2.4.0.
Pavel

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