Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:09:31 -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, Jon M. Taylor wrote: > > > > 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). > > That's piece of information is hardly useful. Linux could be doing any > number of things that Win95 that would prevent VESA 2.0 calls from > working.
I'm gonna have to back off on the VESA 2.0 thing here. I think that maybe it would be better to leave it alone, given that we are going to be duplicating its functionality anyway.
> > > 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. > > I'm seeing conflicting information on this. And the Hercules Dynamite card > I purchased not _that_ long ago doesn't have VBE 1.2, let alone 2.0, in > the ROM.
Hm. Well, I guess I was wrong. I still am pretty sure that most new cards will support 2.0 in ROM, but perhaps all of that isn't as far along as I had thought. Oh well.
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