Another dumb question; are there any good books out there about Vesa.?
cheers DS On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 13:57:05 -0500 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> > 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, but based on an Oak OTI-087 chipset. It has > a > > jumper to select VESA support, but support must be faulty or > incomplete, > > since "mode con lines=34" returns "No VESA ..." > > Even Japheth had some old (186+ ??) tools that would set a few weird > modes, e.g. 80x34. Though it may utilize the same method that FD > MODE > is failing at, so who knows. But it may be worth a second try. (Some > use VGA, others use VESA.) > > EDIT: Oops, almost forgot to mention that it's mirrored on iBiblio > these days. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/setmxx. zip > > > To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver > for the > > card, and would welcome any suggestions. > > I mentioned UniVBE in my other mail, so you could try that. > > Or try SVGATextMode, which was ported to DOS a while back (and > mirrored for us): > > 1). (original URL) http://www.the-dreams.de/projects/ > 2). (FreeDOS mirror) > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/ > > " > SVGATextMode is a set of utilities to get all kinds of textmodes > with > SVGA-cards by directly operating with its registers. It gave me a > nice > 100x75 screen on my laptop when using Linux (without framebuffers). > There used to be a DOS-version, too, but the latest Linux-patches > and > additions spoiled that feature. So, I worked on the at that time > latest Debian-version (1.9-15), regained DOS-compatibility and > improved DOS-usage a bit. > " > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Old High School Flame? > Reconnect and even view yearbooks online. Search today for free! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/55774b9bc0aef4b9b286fmp04duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
