[GEM Development] FreeGEM 3.x drivers updated again

Thomas Clayton topcatdrc at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 8 13:21:03 PST 2008


John,

Do you HAVE copies of the CL-GD542x x=6,8,9 driver? 
Yeah, I know, I should JUST look at the webpage.
The point of question, though, is: I've got copies IF you NEED them.
They do 16 colors at 800x600 and 1024x768 (512KB VRAM required).

Tom Clayton

--- John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Changes since last FreeGEM driver release:
> 
> - The 256-colour VESA driver should now work on systems where the
> window
>  granularity is less than 64k.
> 
> - The 256-colour drivers should support colour user-defined fill
> patterns.
> 
> - One new driver (in pack 2): VESA, 1024x768 in 16 colours. I've
> tested this
>  on a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5436 card and an ATI Mach32 chipset; I remain
> 
>  unconvinced that this mode is widely supported. It doesn't seem to
> work
>  very well under Virtual PC, for instance.
>  
> -- 
> John Elliott
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