From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUoYc-0005W7-O5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:18:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUoYb-0005VS-1e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:18:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUoYa-0005VP-Ve for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:18:33 -0400 Received: from [144.254.224.140] (helo=ams-iport-1.cisco.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BUoYG-0004zL-03 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:18:12 -0400 Received: from cisco.com (edinburgh.cisco.com [144.254.112.76]) by ams-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i4VFI81P028901 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:18:09 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from dfawcus@localhost) by cisco.com (8.8.8/2.6/Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) id QAA22704 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 16:18:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:18:08 +0100 From: Derek Fawcus Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code Message-ID: <20040531161808.D25801@edinburgh.cisco.com> References: <40BB3784.9020202@fabianowski.de> <40BB4496.2070205@bellard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <40BB4496.2070205@bellard.org>; from fabrice@bellard.org on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:43:34PM +0200 Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:43:34PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > > I am trying to get SVGA graphics modes to work under Windows 98. > > Currently, the only known way of accomplishing this is to install SDD 7 > > beta, which is a 21 day test version, along with some obscure VxD file. > > I'd prefer to fix the VBE support and be able to run SDD 6.53, which is > > free. > > [...] > > Today, someone sent me a patch to emulate a CLGD54xx VGA card in QEMU > (currently ISA only card, but I asked the author to add PCI support). Aha - good. I was going to suggest that you use one of those instead of the SiS 6326 - simply 'cause simulating a fairly dumb card [1] seems like a more sensible approach. Any idea which specfic chip is being emulated - as I think I have some of the chip docs squirreled away somewhere. DF [1] Either not acceleration, or only simple BitBLT support.