From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: phrostie Subject: Re: please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabled to use graphics... Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020924103110.54263.qmail@web11002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3D8F7F10.7080900@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D8F7F10.7080900@yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stas Sergeev , linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com