Every search I've done for Vesa book came up empty.
Libraries just don't keep books for long. If the copyright
is over 5 years old they toss it - really dumb. There's alot
of good old stuff.
cheers
DS
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:11:06 -0400 Felix Miata
writes:
> Dale E Sterner composed on 2015-06-09
Hi John,
> ... Does "mode con lines=34" require anything besides VESA support? I
> concluded from my reading that it did not need DISPLAY.SYS or [ANSI]
Here is a quick trick with mode:
MODE CON LINES=1
(or any other weird value) lists possible values in the error message.
MODE CON LINES=30
d
Does "mode con lines=34" require anything besides VESA support? I
concluded from my reading that it did not need DISPLAY.SYS or
N/ANSI.SYS, but if it does, then I've been tripping over fundamentals.
--
_
On 6/9/2015 5:20 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> On 6/9/2015 1:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 12:46 (UTC-0400):
>>
>>> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for
>>> the
>>> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
>> Pull the Oak and put in a Triden
On 6/9/2015 1:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 12:46 (UTC-0400):
>
>> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the
>> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
> Pull the Oak and put in a Trident or ATI, best the latter, which would work
> well
Dale E Sterner composed on 2015-06-09 16:50 (UTC-0400):
> Another dumb question; are there any good books out there about Vesa.?
I had one. I loaned it to a nephew. He donated it to the Clearwater Florida
Public Library. :-(
If it's still there, one could probably get it through the lending prog
On 6/9/2015 4:05 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 15:42 (UTC-0400):
>
>> Rugxulo also suggests this in a follow-up post. I have now tried univbe
>> 6.7 and sdd 6.53. Both explicitly support the Oak chipset. Both report
>> that they provide this card with VESA 3.0 support
Another dumb question; are there any good books out there about Vesa.?
cheers
DS
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 13:57:05 -0500 Rugxulo writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, John Hupp
> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that "mode con lines=34" should display text mode nicely
> on the
> > 4:3 LCD.
John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 15:42 (UTC-0400):
> Rugxulo also suggests this in a follow-up post. I have now tried univbe
> 6.7 and sdd 6.53. Both explicitly support the Oak chipset. Both report
> that they provide this card with VESA 3.0 support including 3 graphics
> modes (though so far
On 6/9/2015 3:26 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> that VESA JUMPER is about connecting extra devices, such
> as framegrabbers or tv receivers. What MODE wants is a
> VGA BIOS with VESA support. And UniVBE can help with it.
>
> As you say that your monitor is 4:3 (interesting!) the
> next questio
On 6/9/2015 1:01 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 09/06/2015 18:46, John Hupp wrote:
>> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the
>> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
> The obvious one that comes immediately to mind is SciTech Display
> Doctor, it supports plenty
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> It seems that "mode con lines=34" should display text mode nicely on the
> 4:3 LCD. And reading up on MODE, I saw that 34 lines requires VESA
> support. This vintage setup has a circa 1991 16-bit ISA video card,
> manufacturer unknown, b
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 09/06/2015 18:46, John Hupp wrote:
>
>> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the
>> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
>
> The obvious one that comes immediately to mind is SciTech Display
> Docto
John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 12:46 (UTC-0400):
> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the
> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
Pull the Oak and put in a Trident or ATI, best the latter, which would work
well if you want to boot Linux on that machine. Tri
On 09/06/2015 18:46, John Hupp wrote:
> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the
> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
The obvious one that comes immediately to mind is SciTech Display
Doctor, it supports plenty of graphic cards, and provides a standard
VESA
On 6/7/2015 7:46 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> Though I cited Edit, and the mode suggestion might improve that, I
>> imagine that the improvement would be lost if I started a game or
>> anything else that runs in a graphical mode.
> As long as the game lets you make a CHOICE between several
thanks
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:46:56 GMT "Bret Johnson"
writes:
> Look at the following web site:
>
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Standard.htm
>
> There are all kinds of standards there related to optical media (CD
> & DVD) -- both physical/media standards and softwa
Look at the following web site:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Standard.htm
There are all kinds of standards there related to optical media (CD & DVD) --
both physical/media standards and software/protocol standards.
_
I looked for books never found any. Didn't know what to search for.
There are large books filled with printer commands and how to
use them. Nothing for cd commands. There use to be books for
modem commands really scarce now.
cheers
DS
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:41:37 +0200 Tom Ehlert
writes:
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