On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:21:33AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Moin Wilko! > > Wilko Fokken schrieb am Sunday, den 26. October 2003: > > > > ... > > Ehm, you realize that your case is somehow constructed? ET4000 is about > > 10 years old, it is at least 3-4 mainstream generations far away from > > the current mainstream cards. Further, you don't need X on a mail > > gateway. > > ... > > What is "SVGA-compatible" from driver's point of view? If your card is > > not supported by any of the SVGATextMode drivers, the only choice you > > have is VESA framebuffer. Which, again, requires a VESA2.0 compliant > > video card and I not sure whether ET4000 was a such one. > > > > MfG, > > Eduard. > > > > Mooi'n dag ok, Eduard, > > thanks for your hints, but (not to feed on any cheese of honour) my card > really is an ET4000_W32 and it works pretty sharp in "1024x768" mode; my > text mode "100x37x9_SVGA" works brilliant. (Perfect for 'mutt' with > "syntax on" in '/etc/vim/vimrc') > > Of course, changing graphical contents is a bit slow, but I would't do > without my higher resolution text mode. > > So I'd appreciate any information about identifying PCI-based graphic > cards being either SVGA-compatible or VESA2.0 compliant.
SiS6326-based cards are cheap, are available in PCI format, and can be used with svgatextmode using my ClockProg. They're crap for games but fine for desktop stuff. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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