[syslinux] S3 Virge DX and vesamenu.c32
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 29 19:50:42 PDT 2006
Fuller, Erik C wrote:
> I have a handful of machines with older S3 Virge video onboard. They do
> not show the vesa menu and instead appear to revert to the older
> menu.c32. Vesamenu.c32 works fine with every other machine I've tried.
>
> I thought this video chipset was Vesa compliant... When I run the
> included vesainfo.c32 many different video modes are returned.
>
> Perhaps there's a readme I've overlooked with instructions on how to
> force a video mode?
>
Could you list the output of vesamenu.c32?
If I remember right, though, S3V was one of very few video card of its
time which didn't support linear framebuffer, at least not through the
VESA BIOS.
-hpa
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