Re: VGA/GUI incompatibility -- carbon.cc, possibly others

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Near as I can figure, it's not the VGABIOS that's screwing up, but the 
Bochs VBE code. Big-endian X11 works.	-DG

On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 01:15  AM, Volker Ruppert wrote:

> > There seems to be a major incompatibility between the Bochs VBE code
> > and its Carbon GUI code. This is evident because when Bochs is 
> > compiled
> > for Apple X11 under MacOSX, both Apple Darwin-x86 and the debian-woody
> > image are able to display in VBE mode, but neither can when Bochs is
> > compiled for Carbon. It seems that redrawing simply stops, but I don't
> > quite see what in the code is making it stop. I know that carbon.cc
> > needs a lot of work, but I think this is release-critical, and the
> > problem may also exist in other GUIs. RSVP with your feedback.  -DG
>
> The graphics display code is okay for VBE in X11 (linux on i386), SDL 
> (linux
> and win32), wxWindows (linux and win32) and win32. I have no access to
> big-endian machines, so I cannot test this version of the X11 gui. The 
> Carbon
> gui (and some others) should be able to display VBE 8 bpp modes. 
> Graphics
> modes with >8bpp should cause a panic.
>
> --
> Bye
>
> Volker
>
>
>
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