From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  7 Jul 1998 01:01:50 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI (S3/Virge)
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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.