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 Trident or ATI, best the latter, which >> would work >> well if you want to boot Linux on that machine. Trident offers more >> native >> SVGA text modes if that's important for any of your DOS apps. Anyone >> with a >> box of old ISA video cards should have a bunch of both ATI and Trident. > > Just to have some progress to show, and because univbe delays the boot > for some seconds while it displays its results (configurable not to do > that?), I thought I would try to some PCI cards I have on hand. These > are circa 1994-97 or '98. They all report some native VESA support > level, mostly 1.2, though 2.0 on one or two. From my hasty test, I > don't recall any of the cards being VESA 3.0. > > None of the 7 cards succeeded with "mode con lines=34." > > I don't know if I'll get to it today, but the next thing to try may be > Rugxulo's suggestions with the setmxx and svgatextmode utilities, or > else these PCI cards with univbe.
I should have added some PCI card info: - S3 Trio64V+ - Matrox Millennium 2P/4C - Diamond Multimedia Stealth 64DRAM - ATI PCI Mach64 - Trident TGUI9680 - Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 (with S3 Virge) - Avance Logic ALG2302 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
