Dieter wrote:
I think that it is the other way around. PC MotherBoards are going to
request a VGA mode that needs to be supported. This VGA mode is only
used until the OS loads a graphics driver. Linux uses VGA/VESA for text
mode console so that is going to be needed unless we have a Kernel
driver for console mode.
This seems like a good time for a reminder of the following. If the
system firmware wants to talk at say 640x480 but you have a fixed
frequency or limited multi-scan monitor that does not do 640x480,
the board needs to convert.
It used to be that BIOSs only used TTY mode but now they appear to use
fixed frame and possibly graphics modes. So, yes the graphics video
mode is going to matter and I presume that some BIOSs only support the
lower resolution modes.
Do you think that at some time in the future that standard VGA
resolution will be dropped?
I suppose that if we have hardware scan conversion that we could use
that to support high resolution only monitors.
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JRT
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