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Date:      Fri, 14 May 1999 10:28:27 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: modex support (again) 
Message-ID:  <199905141728.KAA00868@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 May 1999 14:40:36 %2B0200." <xzpwvyb3juj.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> 

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> To summarize, it seems like a lot of trouble just to get 40 additional
> scanlines and square pixels on obsolete hardware - anything that
> doesn't support 'options VESA' was already obsolete five years ago.

Unfortunately, it's the trend these days to _not_ support anything at 
all interesting in your VESA extensions.  See eg. the nVidia Riva TNT 
firmware.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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