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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:37:49 +0200
From:      Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VESA module doesn't work with ATI Mach64 RagePro
Message-ID:  <19990810083749.A55581@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from Soren Schmidt on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 08:33:18AM %2B0200

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Soren Schmidt wrote (1999/08/09):

> It seems Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> > There is a good possibility that the VESA BIOS extension for this card
> > is provided in a DOS TSR program and the VESA BIOS entry in the ROM
> > BIOS is just a stub.  Such implementation is allowed in the VESA spec.

> Actually its because the ATI chip reports the modes as non-VGA modes, 
> which is correct (sortof), and our VESA code rejects those modeentries.

Yes, thanks. Information reported by 0x4F01 function about any video
mode has set MODE_NON_VGA attribute indeed. And now I have found DOS TSR
program for VESA support...

I hate VESA 2.0/3.0 specification :-( I hate ATI :-(

Is there any good AGP graphics card with full BIOS support in hardware?

-- 
Rudolf Cejka   (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz;  http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar)
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science
Bozetechova 2, 612 66  Brno, Czech Republic


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