On Saturday, June 21st, 2025 at 4:38 AM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On Jun 21, 2025, at 4:10 AM, Thomas Desi via Freedos-user > > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > > > > ... > Side note… There is a tool called LISTVESA on the Install media and on the > repositories. > If your video card supports VESA modes, you can use it to see what Graphics > and Text modes > are available. You could then use VMODE to switch one of those modes. VMODE > will also display > a simple list of VESA modes. However, it does not say if it is Graphics or > Text and only provides > the resolution. That may be good enough since text mode resolutions are > columns & rows. > > ... I honestly couldn't remember if my tool reports whether or not a given mode is graphics or text, so I fired up the latest version (1.11) of ListVESA and ran it. After displaying some general graphics card data, it will output a table summarizing all the available modes; the "Type" column tells whether it is a text or graphics mode. Additionally, it its breakdown of each individual mode, it will describe each bit of the "Mode Attributes" word and, if bit 4 is set, will specify that this is a graphics mode. If this is not listed, e.g. bit 4 is not set, it's a text mode. Mercury :) Sent with Proton Mail secure email. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
