rhgb no more

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:59:09AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:

> VGAfb and the bogl library is quite sufficient for this. Historically it
> has been used for things like non ascii text consoles on some systems but
> it and/or nano-gui will do the job, and unlike the X server won't crash and
> burn on some older cards.

Some machines don't like vga16fb. I've got a via-based system where 
using it results in horrific skew (every line is about 8 pixels further 
right than the previous line). I've also seen sis-based systems where 
hitting the vga crtcs directly works fine for the external video out, 
but leaves the TFT scanning out garbage. I suspect that all of this 
hardware is broken, but...

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