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SubjectRe: fbdev and S3 chips
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Antonio M. Trindade wrote:

> Just another related question: is it possible to load some kind of VESA
> 2.0 BIOS drivers like Scitech Display Doctor for DOS and then load Linux
> through Loadlin and work with the vesafb driver?
Yes, it is possible - S3 has available on their web site a program called
s3vbe20.exe that will load a VESA 2.0 BIOS onto the card - works like a
charm on my S3 Virge. I've used it successfully with the vesafb
driver+loadlin.

I can send you the .zip archive if you can't find it.

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