On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > JL> vesa one is vesa 1, i.e. vbe, afaik, so it works in lots of places > JL> where vesafb doesn't. > > Just to be pedantic: Xvesa does work on anything that has either VBE > 1.2 or later, or a VGA BIOS, or an EGA BIOS. (It has been tested on a > plain EGA chipset by a friendly sysadmin from Sverdlovsk.)
Yes, sorry, I meant 1.2 vs. 2.0 that e.g. vesafb (and Xfree's vesa? dunno) does. I always trip up on that one :) > JL> even on some twisted videoboards that don't even work with their > JL> original (windows) dirvers. > > As far as I am aware, Xvesa should work on any Intel machine you'll > find except if it has an original Hercules chipset. Correct. I'm prejudiced: I don't consider 640x480x4 to be a 'working' mode. Quite frankly, I'd rather not use X like that. Hmm, strike that. matchbox at 640x480x4 grayscale would probably rock :) But anyhow, I meant 'does 640x480x8 or better'. Usually I can get 800x600x16 on boards that either don't work at all (fubared text mode, even) or work as a vga-only thing. That's what I meant. Or something close to it, anyway. As for the [HM]GA, I'm sure I don't care. I'm using them for what would otherwise be boxless servers :) > (We have never seen a VBE earlier than 1.2, but if you've got one and > are willing to do the testing, I'll be glad to write the code. CGA, > anyone?) sorry, no, my mistake (see above). -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Nancy Reagan wants to divorce old Ron... seems he's making it hard for everyone but her.
