From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 16:47:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (pleb.cs.uct.ac.za [137.158.132.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DBC159C7 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (IDENT:khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za [196.7.74.174]) by pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (8.9.1+3.1W/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id SAA13756 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:26:41 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05507; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:24:56 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:24:55 +0200 (SAST) From: Khetan Gajjar Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splashscreens In-Reply-To: <19990411170902.B257@marder-1.localhost> Message-ID: X-Mobile: +27 82 9907663 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Around Today, "Mark Ovens" wrote : MO> I think it (also) depends on the graphics card. I know I get errors MO> about the required graphics mode not available for some DOS programs MO> and the card comes with a DOS TSR program which allows VESA modes MO> to be used (I've never bothered installing it though, and it would MO> be no use under FreeBSD anyway). I'm using a PCI Diamond Stealth64 Video 2001 (at the time I bought it 4 years ago, it was *hot*), which uses a S3 Trio 64V+ chipset. I'm sure later cards can easily "do" more than this one. MO> I guess some modern graphics cards just don't support VESA display MO> modes without a driver these days (coz everyone uses Windows). Oh, so I'm actually quite lucky with my older card :) --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ Security-wise, NT is a OS with a "kick me" sign taped to it Reference : <19990411170902.B257@marder-1.localhost> Date : Apr 11, 1999, 5:09pm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message