On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Rob Becker wrote:
> I was looking at the wscons display subsystem recently and wondered how
> difficult it would be to incorporate a vesa driver. I know that a generic
> vga and cga driver exist, but being able to have console graphics akin to
> the linux framebuffer would be helpful, esp in embedded system where X is
> too heavy. Plus groovy fonts are nice in a hi-res display. Am thinking that
> an appropiately written termcap could allow graphics access, somewhat like
> the bellcore mgr system did with its version of an "xterm".
> Anyone have any ideas where I can start looking? TIA

Someone (I forget their name) was working on a Mach64 framebuffer driver.
Maybe search the mail archives for that person's name, and get in contact
with them about doing a VESA driver.

Regards,
Jared