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- From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
- Subject: Re: Video7 VRam text modes
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.145315@hammer.Prime.COM>
- Keywords: Video7 VRam text
- Sender: cummings@hammer (Kevin Cummings)
- Organization: Prime Computer R&D
- References: <l6ujs1INNajv@cash.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:53:15 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <l6ujs1INNajv@cash.cs.utexas.edu>, woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
- >
- > If you have a Video7 VRam card and are unable to set
- > the text modes at start up, mail me, I changed
- > setup.S, and now I can run Linux with 7 different
- > text modes, yea!
-
- Don't have people write to you, send you changes to Linus!
- (Well, OK, ask him first.) IF there is indeed a problem with ALL
- Video-7 VRAM cards, then your fix will be greatly appreciated
- by all, and should be a part of the regular distribution.
- If not, then someone will let you know why it doesn't work for them B^).
-
- > My first change to the kernel, and it only took me
- > 12 tries, it's so nice to be reminded of that each
- > time I start it up! :D
- >
- > Seriously, I can't believe how easy it was to get my
- > Video Card working correctly.
-
- Yeah, using 286 assembler for the 386 startup. Yay! (I gotta
- download the sources for as86 to find out what we're missing!)
-
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