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SubjectRe: vesa & v2.1.109
> 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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