From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 10 4: 4:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.erols.com (smtp2.erols.com [207.172.3.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2242714A2E for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 04:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-111.s48.as1.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.111]) by smtp2.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA14356; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:05:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199908101105.HAA14356@smtp2.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990810083749.A55581@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:04:15 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Cejka Rudolf Subject: Re: VESA module doesn't work with ATI Mach64 RagePro Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Aug-99 Cejka Rudolf wrote: > > Soren Schmidt wrote (1999/08/09): > >> It seems Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: >> > There is a good possibility that the VESA BIOS extension for this card >> > is provided in a DOS TSR program and the VESA BIOS entry in the ROM >> > BIOS is just a stub. Such implementation is allowed in the VESA spec. > >> Actually its because the ATI chip reports the modes as non-VGA modes, >> which is correct (sortof), and our VESA code rejects those modeentries. > > Yes, thanks. Information reported by 0x4F01 function about any video > mode has set MODE_NON_VGA attribute indeed. And now I have found DOS TSR > program for VESA support... > > I hate VESA 2.0/3.0 specification :-( I hate ATI :-( > > Is there any good AGP graphics card with full BIOS support in hardware? Matrox G200 (and presumably G400). --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message