[Qemu-devel] win98se video driver

[Qemu-devel] win98se video driver

[Jim C. Brown]

I got the default SVGA driver working on win98 but it only supports 16 bit
color and 640x480 display (which makes one wonder what the point of having
the SVGA driver would be ... at least no more annoying "change your video
adaptor" prompts at startup). Is there a way to get better resolution?

If there is no way to do it currently, which would be the easier step?
Hacking a better video card into qemu's emulation (like I'm considering for
touchpad support), or writing a VESA driver for win98?

TIA.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] win98se video driver

[Jason Gress]

On Saturday 01 May 2004 10:24 pm, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> I got the default SVGA driver working on win98 but it only supports 16 bit
> color and 640x480 display (which makes one wonder what the point of having
> the SVGA driver would be ... at least no more annoying "change your video
> adaptor" prompts at startup). Is there a way to get better resolution?
>
> If there is no way to do it currently, which would be the easier step?
> Hacking a better video card into qemu's emulation (like I'm considering for
> touchpad support), or writing a VESA driver for win98?
>
> TIA.

Hello!  This is my first post to this dev list.  I really like the progress of 
this project!  As per your question I have a related question to you; I have 
installed Windows Me (yes, the evil one!) and it installed ok, but the 
hardware detection wizard locks WinMe up.  Also attempting to install the 
Super VGA driver like you suggested (too see if I have any better luck) and 
it gives me a rundll32 error.  So my question to you is: Does the hardware 
detection wizard work for you?  Does any of the hardware auto-detect (i.e. 
network, sound, etc.)?  I am curious how much is similar/different between 
those two OS's, and I wanted to report a semi-successfull install of 
WinMe. ;)

	Jason

P.S.  This is a great project!!  I am really excited about it's future!  Also, 
I am running the CVS from yesterday (via a CVS ebuild I found from 
somewhere.  :)

Re: [Qemu-devel] win98se video driver

[Jim C. Brown]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Jason Gress wrote:
> Hello!  This is my first post to this dev list.  I really like the progress of 
> this project!  As per your question I have a related question to you; I have 
> installed Windows Me (yes, the evil one!) and it installed ok, but the 
> hardware detection wizard locks WinMe up.  Also attempting to install the 
> Super VGA driver like you suggested (too see if I have any better luck) and 
> it gives me a rundll32 error. 

> So my question to you is: Does the hardware 
> detection wizard work for you? 

No. Plug&Play works fine but detect nothing. Non-PnP locks it up.

When I install the emulated hardware, I skip the non-pnp detection and choose
the item from a list.

> Does any of the hardware auto-detect (i.e. 
> network, sound, etc.)? 

No. Had to install network card manually. Same for SVGA.
Haven't set up sound yet.

> I am curious how much is similar/different between 
> those two OS's, and I wanted to report a semi-successfull install of 
> WinMe. ;)

Good luck.

> 
> 	Jason
> 
> P.S.  This is a great project!!  I am really excited about it's future!  Also, 
> I am running the CVS from yesterday (via a CVS ebuild I found from 
> somewhere.  :)
> 
> 
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