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Re:Video Modes.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:27 am
by DennisCGc
Pype.Clicker wrote:
if you're ready to disassemble the video BIOS (which you of course are not allowed to do
) and use the result for reverse-engineering the specs of the card without making it burning or something, i sincerely suggest you use that energy to offer a vm86 monitor instead: at least it will offer support for *all* video cards :-p
I was just joking.
Btw. I found VGADOC4B. It contains the ATI specs, S3 specs, etc.
Maybe something for the programmers here
Re:Video Modes.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:30 am
by DennisCGc
Pype.Clicker wrote:
oh, and btw, Frenchies say "Vous avez raison"
OT: *DOH*
Of course, you are right.
I know: Tu as raison, I "translated" it wrong
Re:Video Modes.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:40 am
by Pype.Clicker
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone10 ... /15177.htm
is certainly a valuable catch, would it only be for "PCI.TXT" it contains ...
i don't know how actual those other files are, as most of the cards looks to be old ISA/PCI ones ... It's certainly worth browsing to figure how an accelerated card works ...
Re:Video Modes.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:44 am
by DennisCGc
[glow=red,2,300]That's VGADOC4B[/glow] ;D
Re:Video Modes.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:41 am
by Pype.Clicker
Note: VGADOC4 was replaced by VGADOC4b because the file VGADECL.INC was
missing. VGADECL.INC and README.1ST are the only differences between
VGADOC4 and VGADOC4b.
Re:Video Modes.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:32 pm
by vbbrett
Thanks all. It's been real interesting reading through all the discussion. As to what I'm going to do, I think I shall just write a bootsector and enable VESA before I go to PMODE. It wasn't exactly what you all thought, but I feel cheap booting from Grub anyway. I just hate using someone elses code! Thanks again,
Brett