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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI (S3/Virge)
Date: Tue,  7 Jul 1998 01:01:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980707050150.lYDvtnqPU3r3y4up5soFjLdHT3Pm0Ln4cwNeOI73HWM@z> (raw)

At usenix, Jim and I spoke briefly about vga hell.
One idea he mentioned was to use the VESA bios calls
to set the graphis mode very early in the boot process,
while the system is still in real mode.  That's an
appealing idea, if it could be done.

 





             reply	other threads:[~1998-07-07  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-07-07  5:01 Scott [this message]
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1998-07-07 17:45 Lucio
1998-07-07  8:11 forsyth
1998-07-07  4:49 Lucio
1998-07-06  9:03 forsyth
1998-07-06  4:30 Lucio

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