From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 10:31:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3A014C3C for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00868; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905141728.KAA00868@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Kelly Yancey , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modex support (again) In-reply-to: Your message of "14 May 1999 14:40:36 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:28:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message