contacts
email: tvignatti (at) gmail com
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tiago.vignatti
IRC: irc.freenode.org, nickname “vignatti”
email: tvignatti (at) gmail com
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tiago.vignatti
IRC: irc.freenode.org, nickname “vignatti”
...my name is Tiago Vignatti. I'm a computer scientist and technologist -- meaning I wake up every day around noon and spend the afternoon in the laboratory, developing Linux. I've been hacking all sort of open source graphics components for a range of cute devices.
I hope you'll find this site interesting. I can be reached here. You can see more about me here. Have fun!
November 13, 2010 at 12:37 am |
My web page illustrates initializing a secondary PCI video adapter to MDA mode for a debugging monitor in real mode under MSDOS.
My method is hardware dependent so I have had to write versions for specific motherboard chip sets so as to be able to write to C000:0000 for initializing the secondary video card.
I noticed that Edubuntu 10.10 has a device called vga_arbiter. I am guessing that you have solved the problem that I solved in a more general way, so am eager to learn of the assembly language API for vga_arbiter so that I can initialize that secondary PCI card to MDA memory and IO addresses so that my debugger in a DOS emulator under Ubuntu, can write directly to the MDA frame buffer at B000:0000 and store and update the cursor position in the standard MDA register for this.
I have also installed C3SL’s mdm. When will this also start using your vga_arbiter?
Regards,
Lawrence E. Boothby, Portland, Oregon, USA