Hi,
> > > About the G364 - doesn't anybody feel like hacking a real console for it?
> > > I hacked the support for the Acer and without benchmarks I'd say the
> > > speed difference is by a factor of several hundred times.
> >
> >Well, Ralf, you forgot that there is _NO_ text mode. You're always
> >in graphics mode, and there's no way out.
>
> The same situation is on a Sun SPARC. As far as I can tell the speed is
> "acceptable" and it depends from the CPU speed. I beleive it is possible
> to render bitmapped characters on current CPUs with a decent speed.
The problem with the current G364 driver is that it is just a better than
nothing implementation. No one has yet invested the work to do it right.
Talking about the G364 console - could anyone having such a machine fix
it for Lores (1024x768)? For now even a hack would be good enough.
Ralf
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