From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 1:25:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1995C1618D for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:25:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host-ie-trezzano.ie-online.it [194.133.148.44]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23063; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:25:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13768; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:25:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991019102608.009565a0@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:26:08 +0200 To: Mark Ovens From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: 3 Questions for 3.2-RELEASE Setup on Thinkpad 560X Cc: "Gandalf T. Grey" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? --- Stefano Riva Systems & Network Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Voice +39-02283151, Fax +39-0228315900 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message