Re: vgafb and old BIOSs

Simon Richter (geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Sun, 2 May 1999 21:22:03 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 2 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> > 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?

> Well, the resolution is a standard one, and the rest of it is easy
> enough to do - if you only select one resolution/colourdepth
> combination in Xconfigurator then only that one resolution/colourdepth
> combination can ever be selected. I run my base system at
> 1024x768x24-bit doing just that, since it's the only resolution I ever
> need to use...

Well, the X server even crashes when someone logs off, so this is not the
perfect solution. The perfect solution is programming the vga stuff once
and then never ever touching it again, just changing the bitmap. :-)

Simon

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