On Sat, 7 May 2005, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Something to consider in all this: It is actually way easier to support basic graphics modes than it is text. Even the screwy VGA legacy graphics modes are basically paged and possibly packed bit maps. In text modes, you have to handle attributes, font bit maps, cursors, etc. Another thing to consider: They are x86 motherboards that have graphical BIBIOS'sn them. While you can get to a text version on some, others you can't.
Just jumping in here without knowing what the hell I'm doing. :-)
Is it possible to do graphics mode only and let the video bios emulate text mode?
Personally I don't care about text mode (or even vga) since I plan on getting an amd board which I can put linuxbios on (which means I could theoretically use a graphical mode on boot-up), and don't ever plan on running windows...
...just added my 1/2 (euro)cent...
Best regards
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