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- From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
- Subject: Re: 0.96c second patch
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.170331@hammer.Prime.COM>
- Keywords: 0.96c patch
- Sender: cummings@hammer (Kevin Cummings)
- Organization: Prime Computer R&D
- References: <1992Jul18.205448.25947@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:03:31 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Jul18.205448.25947@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- > Possible problems:
- >
- > - The VESA code in setup.S has some problems. I haven't even looked
- > into it yet, so if it won't work for you, please either (a) use the
- > unpatched setup.S from 0.96c, or (b) try to find the problem and tell
- > me. (b) is preferable, of course. I'd like to have VESA support, but
- > if the bug isn't found, I'll have to use the non-VESA version for 0.97.
-
- Or PLEASE CONTACT ME (use my HOME address below). I wrote the VESA patch
- (and use it every day on my Diamond Stealth VRAM). I used the April 1989 DDJ
- article on VESA support to write the VESA BIOS calls. I have since gotten
- the internal S3 specs, but I still have no answers as to why only the 01xx
- video modes are in my BIOS capabilities list. I put in one special hack
- for the 132 column modes (which claim to be 1280 pixels horizontally, instead
- of 1056). I want this VESA code to work on EVERY VESA compliant video board.
- Of course, you board MUST support the VESA extensions in its VIDEO BIOS in order
- for this to work. Boards that support VESA BIOS extensions through TSRs are SOL.
-
- Please let me know what your problems with the VESA support are, and I will try
- and keep the support correct. Opinions always welcome (as is a copy of the
- VESA video BIOS extensions spec as well), and any and all VESA standard mode
- numbers and resolutions. I've tried to keep my list up-to-date (since the
- article in DDJ was from a preliminary spec and is incomplete), but I'm not sure
- how modes 02xx and 03xx are covered by the latest VESA standard. But if they
- are returned by the VESA Capabilities function, then they should be supported.
-
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- I've come to the conclusion that your new
- defense system SUCKS..." -- War Games
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