Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:35:43 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: vesa & v2.1.109 |
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> Bugger! :o( I'd have hoped to keep my 486 running well into the 21st > century ;o) Maybe you could have a word with that scitechsoft guy - he > does a lot of VESA stuff and might be able to help - he's the one who > asked about 8k I/O remap stuff earlier this week (forgotten his name > though!) > > He does have a DOS UNIVBE driver that actually adds VESA 2.0 emulation to > the graphic cards that are limited to VESA 1.2, so it is possible to write > a vesafb 1.2 module that adds vesa 2.0 functionality.
Remember that vesafb is only a hack to get usable text/graphics on undocumented chipsets such as NeoMagic working. For usual well-supported video cards it's of little use.
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 "One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them..."
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