On 6/10/2015 10:28 AM, John Hupp wrote: > It seems like I still have some things to try, however. Rugxulo > suggested two utilities that may or do use other methods: setmxx and > svgatextmode. >
An important discovery -- the Oak ISA card that was the source of so much of this discussion appears to be slowly dying. On several occasions I have had a funny display during POST or it wouldn't POST at all. So I dug around and found an even older ISA card (a lowly 512KB Trident TVGA 9000A), and I'm not seeing any issues like I have had with the Oak. It remains the case that the display is smoother and sharper on a CRT than an LCD, but that would also be true in Windows anytime you depart from the LCD native resolution -- even if you match the aspect ratio of the native resolution. I am nonetheless happy to have a few things to work with to better match an LCD's aspect ratio: Eric's trick, for instance, on cards that support it. And I can also report that Japheth's setmxx seems to work as advertised. Even on a VGA card with no VESA support, this will let you get 34 or 60 lines, which is something I could not get from MODE on most cards even with VESA support. I did not test svgatextmode. If it works it would seem to have more capabilities than setmxx, but after I started reading the included documentation (much of which is for Linux), I was not clear about how to install or use it, and under the circumstances I was losing for heart for lengthening the long slog that this has been. Maybe another time after I take care of some things that have been piling up. Thanks to all who helped! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
