Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:10:40 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Cant' switch to VESA VGA (I wanna see the grafik logo!) |
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> Well, I have 2 VESA Text modes in the list if tell the kernel "vga=ask" > and the kernel tells me that i have a vesa card in the headline of > "vga=ask" (but i don't know if this means that it is a VESA 2.0 card > which supports a linear frame buffer). The code after the "check_vesa" > mark in linux/arch/i386/boot/video.S just returns if the mode is ok or > not - what's about a more verbose message? ("badmdt" does not tell > anything except that it does not work. :-) > > But I guess that the S3 Virge card is VESA 2 compatible (it's not a very > old card). I can't find any manuals - so I'm not absolute sure about this. > How can I find out if I can use my card or not?
I think S3 Virge BIOS supports only VESA 1.2 :-(
> PS: Why is all this stuff written in pure assembler? > It's so hard to read. :-)
All this stuff must be run in 16-bit real mode before we start the kernel and GCC doesn't know how to generate 16-bit code.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "A LISP programmer knows value of everything, but cost of nothing."
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