Yes - use X-Windows. The problem is that there are too many graphics cards
out there for us to maintain drivers for each them, but we don't have time
to write new ones. However, the XFree86 people do a wonderful job of
trying to keep up with the new cards, so we use their work. It has the
nice side effect that you can run DOS on a different machine over the
network ....
The original console drivers do a reasonable job for the cards that they
support but they don't support them all. You might notice that most of the
supported cards are now quite old. They were written at a time when
running X was too much of an overhead. I remember my original linux
machine with its massive 4Mb of memory paging madly just trying to run
twm. (The worst thing is that I used to *use* it like that ... ah the old
days ...) In these days when most machines have at least 32Mb of memory X
is a reasonable overhead, and so we can concentrate on the X drivers.
Its unlikely that any new console drivers will be developed. If someone
feels the desperate need to write one then a generic VESA driver *might*
be useful. However, it would be more fun (and more use) to deal with the
limitations of VGAEmu (such as 16-colour modes, Mode-X, etc)
Alistair
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Michal Svec wrote:
> It seems that dosemu doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 graphics card. Can
> I do something to get it working?
