From: cummings@bbird8.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Diamond: Speedstar vs. Speedstar 24 vs Speedstar 24X Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 23:38:48 GMT
In article <92299.033918NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>, Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
|> The other thing for the Linux community to look at may be the VESA stuff
|> which was back in 0.96x. Linus took it out because of problems with some
|> some boards. It may be nice to incorporate this back as a compile-time
|> option which defaults to not being incorporated. As a couple of
|> individuals have reported selecting one of these VESA modes causes the
|> BIOS to select the proper dot-clock frequencies for that resolution. Ugly
|> hack which does not address the problem of only having two resolutions
|> available but probably less ugly than keeping a DOS diskette around.
setup.S has run out of boot space when I re-incorperated the VESA changes
(with special hacks so the Diamond support didn't break everyone else).
Just another problem that Linus will have to solve soon.
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