> On Sat, 1 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question, primarily
> > because I don't know what your question was...
>
> Its hard not to hit ^X when you mean ^C and you've just stood up at 22.00
> in the evening. :-)
>
> Anyways, the question was how I could get a simple fb device up and
> running on a machine with a BIOS that is not VESA 2.0 compliant. It needs
> to have 1280x1024 in 16 bit, noone should ever change resolution, depth or
> something. Is there some driver/patch/... that could do this?
You don't say which video card. I have a patch that will do this for S3
cards which have only a VESA 1.2 BIOS.
P.
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