Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:22:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: recommended VESA compliant cards for fbsd? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990311181715.17731A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199903120206.LAA23975@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Once again, thank you. May I ask which cards you would recommend? I am looking to kick this thing into TrueColor RGB mode. Even normal VGA stuff tends to flake out, as the new cards don't seem to support VGA fully now that they support VESA. Jonathan On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > 3. Your VESA ROM BIOS does not support this particular video mode. > Your video "card" may support it, but its "ROM BIOS" may not. This > may sound strange, but it is permissible in the VESA BIOS extension > standard; the ROM BIOS includes minimal "stub" for the VESA extension > and a DOS TSR (oh, good-old DOS TSR!) implements the full VESA BIOS > services. Because video ROM space is limited, the vendor may find it > difficult to implement full VESA BIOS specification in ROM... > (I don't know if we can support the VESA TSR in vm86...) > vidcontrol -i mode To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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