Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!honig
From: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: low-level graphics access to decstation 3/5000 framebuffer?
Message-ID: <27B9A6D2.10487@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 20:51:29 GMT
References: <48753@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig)
Distribution: usa
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Lines: 13

I'm looking for hints on how to access the Decstation's framebuffer,
bypassing X.  I'd also like to know how to get a signal or poll when
the vertical retrace is occurring.

I know how to do this with one line on a Sun, but I'm not familiar with 
the Decs or X.  

Much thanks.

-- 
David Honig
"Tyranny and despotism can be excercised by  many, more rigorously,
more vigorously, and more severely than by one." ---Andrew Jackson