Re: Support for VESA Textmode 132x60

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:17:32AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> Luis Ariel Lecca wrote:
> >    On 04/16/08 11:15, Joey Schulze wrote:
> >    > I'm seeking information on modern graphic cards (PCI, PCIe) that
> >    > support VESA BIOS mode 0x010C, a special text mode that works with
> >    > 132x60 characters. Linux supports this mode when the graphics board
> >    > provides this particular mode.
> > 
> >    Did you probe using framebuffer ? (which uses graphic mode)...its slower
> >    than VESA BIOS support...
> 
> The framebuffer is irrelevant when you want a text mode, and - as you
> write yourself - it's also slower.  The real text mode is the
> interesting mode.  

I wish that there was a smooth 80x25, same size as normal but without
the black scan lines in-between the white scan lines.

Doug.