Hi, On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > > It seems that "mode con lines=34" should display text mode nicely on the > 4:3 LCD. And reading up on MODE, I saw that 34 lines requires VESA > support. This vintage setup has a circa 1991 16-bit ISA video card, > manufacturer unknown, but based on an Oak OTI-087 chipset. It has a > jumper to select VESA support, but support must be faulty or incomplete, > since "mode con lines=34" returns "No VESA ..."
Even Japheth had some old (186+ ??) tools that would set a few weird modes, e.g. 80x34. Though it may utilize the same method that FD MODE is failing at, so who knows. But it may be worth a second try. (Some use VGA, others use VESA.) EDIT: Oops, almost forgot to mention that it's mirrored on iBiblio these days. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/setmxx.zip > To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the > card, and would welcome any suggestions. I mentioned UniVBE in my other mail, so you could try that. Or try SVGATextMode, which was ported to DOS a while back (and mirrored for us): 1). (original URL) http://www.the-dreams.de/projects/ 2). (FreeDOS mirror) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/ " SVGATextMode is a set of utilities to get all kinds of textmodes with SVGA-cards by directly operating with its registers. It gave me a nice 100x75 screen on my laptop when using Linux (without framebuffers). There used to be a DOS-version, too, but the latest Linux-patches and additions spoiled that feature. So, I worked on the at that time latest Debian-version (1.9-15), regained DOS-compatibility and improved DOS-usage a bit. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
