Re: Page flipping on LFB in protected mode...how??!?!

spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>If I'm using the LINEAR frame buffer, which allows me to access any
>part of video memory without having to switch bank, is it possible for
>me to change the base address of video mapped memory to any other
>memory zone if I were to go through the video BIOS? Or am I limited in
>some ways?

No, there's no way. That's exactly what I said. All graphics cards have a
register to set the starting address in the frame buffer to display, but
the address and interpretation of that register is not standardized.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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