From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 17:13:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk (longacre.demon.co.uk [158.152.156.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA31153FA for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:13:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from searle@longacre.demon.co.uk) Received: (from searle@localhost) by longacre.demon.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA03120; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:54:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from searle) Message-ID: <19990413005456.01088@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:54:56 +0100 From: Michael Searle To: Mark Ovens , Michael Searle Cc: Khetan Gajjar , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splashscreens References: <19990411111937.C257@marder-1.localhost> <19990411170902.B257@marder-1.localhost> <19990412022601.37399@demon.co.uk> <19990412210024.B250@marder-1.localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19990412210024.B250@marder-1.localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:00:24PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:00:24PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 02:26:01AM +0100, Michael Searle wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 05:09:02PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:26:46PM +0200, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > > > On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > > > > >What exactly do you mean by "loading the kernel module to use a > > > > >high res bitmap"? > > > > > > > > I meant to load the vesa kld, which I see you've already done. > > > > > > > > If you're doing that, then I have no idea. I'm using -current, > > > > so it could be something fixed in that. > > > > > > > > > > I think it (also) depends on the graphics card. I know I get errors > > > about the required graphics mode not available for some DOS programs > > > and the card comes with a DOS TSR program which allows VESA modes > > > to be used (I've never bothered installing it though, and it would > > > be no use under FreeBSD anyway). > > > > > > I guess some modern graphics cards just don't support VESA display > > > modes without a driver these days (coz everyone uses Windows). > > > > > > > AFAIK everything supports at least some VESA modes. There's enough > > DOS software still in use that it has to. (even DOS software still > > being written... blech.) Using lower resolutions is not likely to > > help though, as it is more often these that are missing. (320x200 > > will work on anything of course, I mean 320x240,400x300, 512x384.) > > The most usual ones are the medium resolutions - 640x400, 640x480, > > 800x600,1024x768. It should give them in the card's manual though. > > > > Well, as I said, the Xpert@Work seems to need a DOS TSR to enable > VESA modes so that would satisfy DOS requirements, but they're just > not available without this driver. > > When I get time I'll check ATI's website, see if there's any > programming info. > It may be that some modes are available in ROM, but the TSR has more. In the G200 which I have, there are some (VESA1.2) modes in the BIOS, but the rest (which are VESA2) need DOS software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message