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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
>
> I have found one Trident video card that works in DOS but not in Linux
> (everything is striped).  Does BL2 not use the VESA mode?  This is for
> plain text, as I recall.
>
Which Trident is it?  I've actually had pretty good experience with
Trident cards under Linux.  I'm referring to mainly older cards - 512kb
and 1MB video mem range.  Switching from the vga16 (for Xwindows) to xsvga
xserver made a *big* performance improvement.

James