[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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