Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 01:15:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. |
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On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > * Support for VESA BIOS, just so that more cards get supported for > > free. > > This keeps getting mentioned, but I'm not sure all the pieces are in > place. Yes, VESA 2.0 is "32-bit". Does that actually mean it's usable from > within Linux?
32-bit protected mode? I don't see any reason why not. It works in Win95 (which, IIRC, was the reason for making it 32-bit).
> More importantly, do _any_ cards have VESA 2.0 information > built into the ROM? I hope I don't need to point out that a DOS VESA TSR > (32-bit or not) is quite useless to Linux.
*All* the new ones do. The one I'm using right now (~3 months old) does, for example.
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