>
> Is anyone thinking of directly supporting S3 chips in fbdev for x86
> other than S3 Trio and S3 Virge?
Yes, and someone has. Check out KGIcon at www.ggi-project.org. The
KGIcon drivers act as normal fbdev loadable kernel module drivers, but we
support most older S3 chipsets as well as Trio and Virge.
> Just another related question: is it possible to load some kind of VESA
> 2.0 BIOS drivers like Scitech Display Doctor for DOS and then load Linux
> through Loadlin and work with the vesafb driver?
Yes. Exactly what you said.
Jon
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