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SubjectRe: vgafb and old BIOSs
Hi Simon.

>> Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question,
>> primarily because I don't know what your question was...

> Its hard not to hit ^X when you mean ^C and you've just stood up
> at 22.00 in the evening. :-)

I know the feeling, I've done it myself often enough...

> 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.

I have to admit that I don't know, as it's not something I've ever
tried to do.

> 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?

Well, the resolution is a standard one, and the rest of it is easy
enough to do - if you only select one resolution/colourdepth
combination in Xconfigurator then only that one resolution/colourdepth
combination can ever be selected. I run my base system at
1024x768x24-bit doing just that, since it's the only resolution I ever
need to use...

Best wishes from Riley.

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