Re: please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabled to use graphics...

[phrostie <pfrostie@yahoo.com>]

thanks to all for the responses.
last night i was going thru the different runtime options, but regardless of
what i try i still can't seem to get any of my VGA stuff working again.

under video it asks for video address.  
where do i get/verify this for my card?

> For S3 cards you must not worry about this issue
> at all. Setting $_chipset="s3" worked for my S3 Trio
> flawlessly both for VGA and VESA modes. Don't remember
> about setting $_chipset="plainvga", but I think it could
> work as well.
> This problem exists only on some (modern?) cards for VESA
> modes, but for VGA modes there must be no such problem at
> all (Bart, do you really have any examples when this is a
> problem even for VGA? Correct me then, please).
> To verify if you have this "port" problem, just start your
> DOS prog under WinNT. If it can't set mode also there, then
> yes, you have this problem (I bet you don't have it with
> S3 though). Unfortunately opening the ports doesn't always
> help: still no VESA modes on my Radeon7500, but VGA works
> perfectly. Thinking about returning my old S3...
> 
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