Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New Idea? Capture video settings details in Win98/etc. for XFree86 config | From | Mark Gray <> | Date | 13 Sep 1999 05:19:07 -0400 |
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"Stephen D. WIlliams" <sdw@lig.net> writes: [snip] > It occurred to me that it is probably possible to write a Win98/NT program > that can grab those settings from a running system (configured with card > vendor supplied BIOS/drivers) and save them to a floppy for use in installing > Linux on that box. > > I'm speaking generally about the frequency rates, dot clock settings, and > other related configuration. Even video mode would be something that would > allow the Linux system to start with the same video abilities as the original > OS. > > I'd be surprised if this wasn't thought of before; why can't we do this?
Take a look at vgadoc4b.zip (or latest version) as a start for this. Porting pciutils to dos would be a very usefull thing to do as well. vgadoc4b.zip gives the webpage:
http://www.datashopper.dk/~finth
(But the newest file dates from Sep 29, 1995 so who knows) and ftp sites:
ftp.coast.net:/SimTel/msdos/vga/
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-hard/
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/simtel/msdos/vga/
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