Re: Xvesa and VBE [was: m68k buildd's without ...]
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> JL> vesa one is vesa 1, i.e. vbe, afaik, so it works in lots of places
> JL> where vesafb doesn't.
>
> Just to be pedantic: Xvesa does work on anything that has either VBE
> 1.2 or later, or a VGA BIOS, or an EGA BIOS. (It has been tested on a
> plain EGA chipset by a friendly sysadmin from Sverdlovsk.)
Yes, sorry, I meant 1.2 vs. 2.0 that e.g. vesafb (and Xfree's
vesa? dunno) does. I always trip up on that one :)
> JL> even on some twisted videoboards that don't even work with their
> JL> original (windows) dirvers.
>
> As far as I am aware, Xvesa should work on any Intel machine you'll
> find except if it has an original Hercules chipset.
Correct. I'm prejudiced: I don't consider 640x480x4 to be a
'working' mode. Quite frankly, I'd rather not use X like that.
Hmm, strike that. matchbox at 640x480x4 grayscale would probably
rock :) But anyhow, I meant 'does 640x480x8 or better'. Usually
I can get 800x600x16 on boards that either don't work at all
(fubared text mode, even) or work as a vga-only thing. That's
what I meant. Or something close to it, anyway.
As for the [HM]GA, I'm sure I don't care. I'm using them for what
would otherwise be boxless servers :)
> (We have never seen a VBE earlier than 1.2, but if you've got one and
> are willing to do the testing, I'll be glad to write the code. CGA,
> anyone?)
sorry, no, my mistake (see above).
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