Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:58:34 -0500 From: "Bill McMilleon" <billmcmilleon@home.com> To: "'Mark Ovens'" <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 132 column VESA modes on a Cyber9397? Message-ID: <000201c00a07$1d3930b0$6401a8c0@tp770z> In-Reply-To: <20000819183649.A254@parish>
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> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:20:37PM -0500, Bill McMilleon wrote: > > I am a fortunate owner of an IBM ThinkPad 770z which uses a > > Cyber9397 video controller. This unit is capable of 1024x768 > > operation at 16-bit color, but I can't seem to get at any of > > the 132 column modes that are available on my desktop > > machines (using both a Matrox Mystique and a very cheap S3 > > Trio32 card). I'm a big CLI fan who doesn't need/want to > > run X if at all possible, but I really need some 132 column > > modes to make things comfortable. Has anyone been able to > > coax a Cyber 9397 into doing this? If not, does anyone have > > an idea what is involved to implement this in software? I > > am a semi-talented C programmer who would be willing to > > pursue this, but I have little experience with Unix > > development and almost no knowledge of VESA and framebuffer > > issues. Thanks. > > > > FYI: "vidcontrol -i mode" does NOT list any 132 column modes > > for this video device. > > That's your answer. To be able to use these modes under FreeBSD > the VESA BIOS Extensions need to be on-chip. It appears that > yours, like my ATI card, aren't (Matrox, and newer ATI, cards > are). To support these modes in DOS (for Lotus 1-2-3 for example) > it needs a DOS TSR to provide the necessary support. > HTH Thanks for the reply. So, if I understand you right: there is little or no hope for the possibility of writing a FreeBSD equivalent to UNIVBE? --Bill billmc@internetaddress.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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