[ros-dev] VGA Driver Status

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

come on, devs,

eVb has been done an awesome work until now.. i think he should be helped
now he needs you (dunno if i have written it properly...)

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Ros Arm <ros.arm at reactos.org> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> Even past EngCreateBitmap fix in trunk, VGA driver I wrote still having
> many problems drawing, most with text output and colors. Example, desktop
> icon appear monochrome, not color. But Paint palette has 16 colors. When
> draw in Paint, white background become black! And after released mouse,
> deletes any existing line, shape, ... drawn!
>
> I am not having experience with Win32K system too much, and Richard said
> too much dependency and regression can happen if touched. Also, other
> problem exist with driver loading: multiple display driver not supported if
> previous driver mode set fail. Timo Kreuzer said "yarotws" has fix for this,
> but don't want to touch Win32k...
>
> So, would like to ask help with getting VGA driver working. I soon commit
> to trunk, and can be used with new vga/vbe miniport. Just need to edit
> registry entries to load it.
>
> Thank you!
>
> [eVb]
>
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