Yes.., all of this is true...., but I think that, like the fullscreen
proposal & standard VGA (which seems to be under control for just strict
emulation), this is one area that might be worth a good hard look. One
thing that I would like to know is how to set the V-scan rate on a VESA
system so that I can have my high-res text modes back in LINUX!!! I spent a
large sum of money to get a flatscreen & it only does up to 75Hz!!! Oh
well.., you get what you pay for ;^)!!
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Sintsov Dmitri
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Re: plex86 video proposal]
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> On 3 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > There is no SVGA standard, but there are VESA standards. Is
> there something
> > that can be done with these? I remember having proposed
> something like that
> > over a year and a half ago, but this was probably too early on.
> >
> > Are there any "generic" VESA/VBE drivers out there, for most OSs?
> >
> > Eric Labergehi
> > i strongly recommend this idea as most systems has a VESA driver
> > win32,OS/2 and even BeOS and QNX
> >
> > joe
> >
> VESA is better than plain VGA of course, but it's quite outdated as well.
> It provides the support for higher resolutions and linear framebuffer
> addressing, however accelererated 2d+3d would be highly desirable
> nowadays, which VESA couldn't provide (there was draft for VESA 2d
> acceleration, but vendors don't support it usually, and TSR versions are
> commercial and avaliable for just minority of accelerators). I'd rather
> stick with Jeffrey's proposal. Also, VESA is a BIOS and calling BIOS from
> OS usually considered to be unreliable approach.
> Uhus
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