What is the "framebuffer?"

Thanks,
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: port-dreamcast-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:port-dreamcast-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Christian Groessler
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:11 PM
To: port-dreamcast@netbsd.org
Cc: cpg@aladdin.de
Subject: Re: X under netbsd/dreamcast


Marcus wrote:

> "Philippe St-Jacques" <h0ho@hotmail.com> writes:

>> I was wondering if there was a way to run xfree on the dreamcast. The
>> driver for the graphic card is text only,

> No it isn't.  You can mmap it and do graphics.  I even got GGI running
> on it.

Do you have some simple example on how to mmap the framebuffer?

Could you provide the diffs to get GGI running? :-)

regards,
chris