Re: diamond stealth 3d2000 + graphical console

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:03:05 +0100 (BST)

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> Did you use loadlin? Someone else reported success loading a VESA
> driver in DOS and then using loadlin. Meanwhile, booting using LILO,
> vesafb says absolutely nothing. Although I _did_ get a screen full of
> blue and green dots by messing with the video mode numbers... :)

If you load a DOS Vesa driver you probably need to disable the vesa
consoles use of paging and "legal" palette setting as Linux blows the TSR
away so the callbacks drop into oblivion

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