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82 lines
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.TH vga_blitwait 3 "27 July 1997" "Svgalib (>= 1.2.11)" "Svgalib User Manual"
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.SH NAME
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vga_blitwait \- wait for any accelerator operation to finish
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B "#include <vga.h>"
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.BI "void vga_blitwait(void);"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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waits for any accelerator operation to finish. Though already
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implemented not useful because these old style functions do not allow for parallel
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operation of the accelerator. A limited use might be to wait for a running
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operation to complete in a
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.BR signal (2)
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handler.
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This is an old style function to access the accelerator of an SVGA card. Before calling
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it you should check for availability of the function in the mode you use with
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.BR vga_getmodeinfo (3).
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For new applications you might be better of trying to use
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.BR vga_accel (3)
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instead.
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The old
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.BR vga_bitblt (3),
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.BR vga_blitwait (3),
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.BR vga_fillblt (3),
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.BR vga_hlinelistblt "(3), and "
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.BR vga_imageblt (3)
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interface was originally designed for the Cirrus chipsets. Then Mach32 added support too
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but has problems to resemble the unintuitive Cirrus interface. Then these new ideas
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were reinjected and
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.BR vga_accel (3)
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was designed. Now Cirrus and Chips & Technologies chipset give limited
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.BR vga_accel (3)
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support but no longer this old style support.
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Mach32 is left to use the unintuitive Cirrus interface. At some future point the
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functions might be added for Mach32 too (which should be rather simple), so new
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applications should use the newer and probably more efficient interface.
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It would be fatal if the accelerator would be used while the console is switched away.
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You should use
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.BR vga_lockvc (3)
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and
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.BR vga_unlockvc (3)
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to avoid this, although good implementations of the accelerator functions (like Mach32)
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will already ensure that.
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The
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.BR testaccel (6)
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demo utilizes the old style accelerator functions.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR svgalib (7),
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.BR vgagl (7),
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.BR libvga.config (5),
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.BR testaccel (6),
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.BR vga_accel (3),
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.BR vga_bitblt (3),
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.BR vga_fillblt (3),
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.BR vga_hlinelistblt (3),
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.BR vga_imageblt (3),
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.BR vga_getmodeinfo (3),
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.BR vga_lockvc (3),
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.BR vga_unlockvc (3)
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.SH AUTHOR
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This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The
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exact source of the referenced function as well as of the original documentation is
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unknown.
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It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to
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Harm Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.
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Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby
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asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections
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to this first version of the svgalib manual.
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