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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

> > Also, any printer-specific ones that you request.
> pbmto  epson   escp2  lj lps ppa (in your first package already)

Noted. Do you have any other printers? Or should I build a tarball now
with those and the printer-agnostic ones?

> > 8-bit color for Xvesa is PseudoColor.  AFAIK the
> > PseudoColor routine for our version of Xvesa was
> > non-functional.
> 
> The Delilinux Xvesa has the same problems, in BL2.  Is there a 
> later version of Xvesa to try?

Probably. I'm still trying to figure out if mine works, as I don't
remember any trouble at 8-bit with Xvesa.

> Re framebuffer, we have one Matrox Millenium II card that is VESA 
> 2.0 and supposedly framebuffer (a more recent sort of XVESA that 
> supports up to 1600 resolution).  You would need to make a few 
> changes to the kernel to support it and it looks rather 
> complicated.  In addition to 'kernel patches' for S3 Trio64 or 
> Virge, there was mention of using UNIVBE in DOS (like UNIVESA) to 
> upgrade the VESA capabilities of a card before loading linux with 
> loadlin.   Maybe you would like to try this out and provide a 
> frame-buffer kernel for 'vesafb'.  Matrox will not work with that, 
> needs 'matroxfb' (compiled into the kernel?  Or maybe could be 
> modules?).

What?? I thought that you just said it was VESA 2.0. Anything which
supports that will work with vesafb.

> The Matrox cards are the only ones on a list other than MDA that 
> could be used as the video card in a dual-head system.   With two 
> fb devices, you could use con2fb and specify during boot which 
> consoles were used with which video chip and monitor, as well as 
> setting the resolution by mode number (vga=0301).  There is an 
> XF68_FBdev X server which supposedly does better than the SVGA one 
> (more resolution?).  XF86Config also needed.

Xfbdev (the other FB server) uses the KDrive architecture instead, like
Xvesa. It's a little smaller than Xvesa, and doesn't need command-line
arguments for most setups.

> The board that won't do resizecons properly with Virge works with 
> Trio64 and Trident and Matrox as expected.  In a dual-monitor 
> system the MDA consoles are usable (with cursor) only in 80x25 
> mode, but you can switch modes to what you want for a while, then 
> back to 80x25 to use the second monitor.  I fiddled a bit with BIOS 
> video shadowing which did not help (it may have made things worse 
> to disable it).

I believe that's where some (all?) of your video memory is superimposed
on main memory. Not quite sure, though.

> fbset can be used to enable framebuffer console scrollback 
> buffering, which normal vga has by default and mda does not have at 
> all.  (Shift PageUp or Shift PageDown).

The FB console has it by default, too.

> VESA 2.0 cards on a list did not include my Tseng which claims VESA 
> 2.0 but did have PCI cards from ATI, SiS, STB, Riva, Genoa and 
> Hercules.  Are all AGP cards VESA 2.0?

Probably it's in the spec. AGP came out a while after VESA 2.0.

David
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