thanks to all for the responses. last night i was going thru the different runtime options, but regardless of what i try i still can't seem to get any of my VGA stuff working again.
under video it asks for video address. where do i get/verify this for my card? > 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... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
