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From: shamash@cs.columbia.edu (Ari Shamash)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: X11 on Mach '386..
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.170138.29744@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 17:01:38 GMT
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Reply-To: shamash@hudson.columbia.edu (Ari Shamash)
Organization: Columbia University Computer Science Dept
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I would like to port the X11R4 to Mach running on an IBM/AT '386
machine with a VGA display.  We have the libraries and clients up and
running, but not the server.

What I need to know is this: How do I map in the VGA frame-buffer
memory and I/O ports into a user process?  Once I can access the video
card registers and frame-buffer from a user process, porting the rest
of the server will be relatively easy (famous last words, huh? :-)

Please reply via e-mail or post, either way.  I'll post again when I
get the server working.

Thanks,
Ari

P.S.  If anybody wants the compiled binaries mentioned above, I can
      make them available for anonymous FTP.

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