Re: S3 High Speed text font support in vgacon.c [patch 2.1.112]

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:24:29 +0100 (GMT)


On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Yaroslav Rosomakho wrote:

> By, what about S3 ViRGE? There is a nice DOS TSR Prog ( like small
> univbe) for S3 chips - s3vbe20. It "makes" avery S3 cardVBE 2.0
> compliant. Could anyone integrate something like this prog into kernel?

Unfortunately, it's not all that small. The .exe is about 200k, and
I don't suppose its memory resident size is much less (haven't looked,
though.)

I have to use it to get a vesafb console going on my oldish Trio64,
(Finally, a use for DOS -- it's called loadlin ;) and it works quite
nicely.

Matthew.

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