720x400 is 9 pixel (8+1 space) text mode.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Northup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:46 AM
Subject: RE: [plex86] Plex86 boots LINUX!!!
> I have a nice flatscreen that calculates that for you...... the shutdown
> screen is 720 by 400, 31.5KHz horz, 70 Hz vert, neg/pos on my i810 chipset
> w/ integrated video. This is also the same resolution that scandisk runs
at
> ;^)!! (Guess how I found that out!!! Can we say "crash"?) Both of the
boot
> screens are the same resolution also.
>
> Drew Northup, N1XIM
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> > Of Nelson Rush
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:11 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [plex86] Plex86 boots Linux!!!
> >
> >
> > I think the Windows "splash screen" that appears when the OS
> > boots and shuts
> > down is 320x400.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> > Of Kenneth Arnold
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 4:23 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [plex86] Plex86 boots Linux!!!
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:44:10PM +0200, Ramon van Handel wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:22:28PM -0400, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > > > > Folks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Some enhancements and bug-fixes later, and now plex86 boots Linux
> > > > > normally...kick-ass!!!
> > >
> > > Cool! Nice work Kevin!
> > >
> > > > Could you run 2.4 in it and run plex86 in that and figure out why
it's
> > > > not working? At least the part about getting the pages
> > (host_reserve_page
> > > > if my memory serves correctly) is a bit wrong at the moment.
> > >
> > > I rather doubt that plex is sophisticated enough already in order to
be
> > > able to run itself...
> >
> > VMWare still can't... so maybe Bochs there. But this is
> > definately an issue
> > that needs to be resolved.
> >
> > > > > I will commit changes to CVS soon after I clean up my current
> > > > > code.
> > > >
> > > > Please do :) quite cool. Have you tried more advanced stuff like X?
> > >
> > > Graphics modes don't work yet, only text modes.
> > > So X wouldn't run, unless you have an AAlib X server? ;)
> >
> > Well with GGI and the aalib driver and the GGI X server...
> >
> > But shouldn't SVGA X work? Isn't a VGA BIOS kind of required for running
> > modern x86 OSes? If VGA won't work, it's likely Windows's pretty splash
> > screen (eeew...) won't work either. What video mode _does_ that use,
> > anyway?
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
> > http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
