Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 12:29:24 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | Re: vgafb and old BIOSs |
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On Sun, 2 May 1999, Peter Horton wrote:
> > Anyways, the question was how I could get a simple fb device up and > > running on a machine with a BIOS that is not VESA 2.0 compliant. It needs > > to have 1280x1024 in 16 bit, noone should ever change resolution, depth or > > something. Is there some driver/patch/... that could do this?
> You don't say which video card. I have a patch that will do this for S3 > cards which have only a VESA 1.2 BIOS.
This sounds extraordinarily great, if it works for S3V/VX as well, I'll be buying it... :-)
Simon
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