Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

[Larry]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:15:39PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote:

>       Ugh.  Sorry about that.  Yeah, VESA 1.2 isn't supported
> _directly_.
> 
> > The patch was
> > intended to patch the kernel so that it WOULD support the VESA 1.2 BIOS.
> 
>       Another way to hack this is to boot DOS first, run a TSR that
> gives your card VESA 2.0 capabilities.  Then you use LOADLIN.EXE to boot
> your kernel from DOS without rebooting, and the real-mode init code in the
> kernel will be able to use the VESA 2.0 TSR to set a linear mode.

Yeah, I'll give that a try, cause the patch didn't work.   (:
Thanks