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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:26:08 +0200
From:      Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        "Gandalf T. Grey" <gandalf24@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3 Questions for 3.2-RELEASE Setup on Thinkpad 560X
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19991019102608.009565a0@relay.alice.it>
In-Reply-To: <19991018191633.B322@marder-1>
References:  <3.0.5.32.19991018184450.00b11950@relay.alice.it> <19991018150610.48729.qmail@hotmail.com> <3.0.5.32.19991018184450.00b11950@relay.alice.it>

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At 19.16 18/10/99 +0100, you wrote:
>I see the same problem with my ATI card if I try to load a bitmap
>other than 320x200. It is probably because, like the ATI cards,
>the VBE (VESA BIOS Extensions) are not built in but are loaded via
>a driver.  Unfortunately this is going to be a DOS TSR program and
>so is no use in FreeBSD. Sorry.

  Yes. Same problem with an ATI Mach64 built in a HP Netserver E60 I have
on my desk right now. The strange thing is that I remember an old ATI
Winturbo Mach64 *with* VBE. Are you sure that modern ATI cards doesn't have
VBE built in?

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  Stefano Riva
  Systems & Network Administrator
  Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl
  Voice +39-02283151, Fax +39-0228315900



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