It really isn't all that useful anymore, but very helpful in this case.
With that said, most cards >=1995 or so should support VESA 2.0. My
current Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 (S3 ViRGE/DX2, 4mb ram, AGP bus) does,
and (to my surprise) my last card, a generic $20 S3 ViRGE 4mb PCI card
also does.
If your card does not, or only supports VESA 1.2 (Like my trusty Diamond
Viper VLB- Weitek P9000, 2mb ram on a vlb. sweet card for it's time) you
should first talk to the hardware manufacturer and see if they have an
upgrade. next option is to use something like UniVBE for DOS to boot
DOS, install their VESA 2.0 TSR, then use loadlin to boot linux with
VESAFB.
Hopefully, this mess will get straightened out a bit during the 2.3.x
development, and we will get a ViRGEfb driver instead...
Wasn't there a version of UniVBE for Linux announced on Slashdot a while
ago? Has anyone played with it?
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