Re: vgafb and old BIOSs

Simon Richter (geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Sun, 2 May 1999 12:29:24 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 2 May 1999, Peter Horton wrote:

> > Anyways, the question was how I could get a simple fb device up and
> > running on a machine with a BIOS that is not VESA 2.0 compliant. It needs
> > to have 1280x1024 in 16 bit, noone should ever change resolution, depth or
> > something. Is there some driver/patch/... that could do this?

> You don't say which video card. I have a patch that will do this for S3
> cards which have only a VESA 1.2 BIOS.

This sounds extraordinarily great, if it works for S3V/VX as well, I'll be
buying it... :-)

Simon

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