Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: also frustrated with the framebuffer and your matrox-card in 2.5.53? hack/patch available!

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 07:47:52PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:

quoted

Petr is expressing his political view. It has nothing to do with technical 
arguments. In fact I place a bet. I will port the matrox driver and it 
will have the same functionality as the previous driver except for text 
mode support. If I can't do it I will not only revert the changes but I 

Yes. Without text mode support. But without textmode support that driver is
of no use for me because of it is not compatible with VMware then.

What exactly in the new fbdev API is preventing you from having text mode
support?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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