Hello. phrostie wrote: >> not support this video card and does not open up enough ports. > what ports? > could you expand on this part? > i have a S3 For S3 cards you must not worry about this issue at all. Setting $_chipset="s3" worked for my S3 Trio flawlessly both for VGA and VESA modes. Don't remember about setting $_chipset="plainvga", but I think it could work as well. This problem exists only on some (modern?) cards for VESA modes, but for VGA modes there must be no such problem at all (Bart, do you really have any examples when this is a problem even for VGA? Correct me then, please). To verify if you have this "port" problem, just start your DOS prog under WinNT. If it can't set mode also there, then yes, you have this problem (I bet you don't have it with S3 though). Unfortunately opening the ports doesn't always help: still no VESA modes on my Radeon7500, but VGA works perfectly. Thinking about returning my old S3...
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