From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 11 18:24:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (00-60-67-24-29-83.bconnected.net [209.53.17.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F19814D45 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwalther@localhost) Received: from jwalther by localhost with local-smtp (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian)) id 10LHao-0004c8-00; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:22:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:22:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Walther X-Sender: jwalther@localhost To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: recommended VESA compliant cards for fbsd? In-Reply-To: <199903120206.LAA23975@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Once again, thank you. May I ask which cards you would recommend? I am looking to kick this thing into TrueColor RGB mode. Even normal VGA stuff tends to flake out, as the new cards don't seem to support VGA fully now that they support VESA. Jonathan On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > 3. Your VESA ROM BIOS does not support this particular video mode. > Your video "card" may support it, but its "ROM BIOS" may not. This > may sound strange, but it is permissible in the VESA BIOS extension > standard; the ROM BIOS includes minimal "stub" for the VESA extension > and a DOS TSR (oh, good-old DOS TSR!) implements the full VESA BIOS > services. Because video ROM space is limited, the vendor may find it > difficult to implement full VESA BIOS specification in ROM... > (I don't know if we can support the VESA TSR in vm86...) > vidcontrol -i mode To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message