[Cross-posted to Arachne list]
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 13:48:44 -0400, Tibor Mocsar wrote:
> The manufacturing date of the card [S3 Trio 64+/PCI]
> is 11/97. It has built-in VESA 1.2 support. The
> provided VESA driver enables version 2.0. Of course
> I selected VESA in Arachne's setup, tried both items
> without success. I searched also the manufacturer's
> website and Compuserve's appropriate libraries. Nothing
> usable for DOS.
Strange, non-standard VESA? My old SVGA card (Realtek
ISA) also has built-in VESA 1.2 (exactly the same
version), and it works fine with Arachne in VESA mode.
Basically, VESA-compliant SVGA systems should hide the
hardware layer completely from the applications. So,
if it was implemented properly, ISA, EISA, or even PCI
shouldn't be the problem.
BTW, have you tried UNIVBE as VESA driver?
>> Instead of throwing it away, how about trade it in
>> for an ET6000? ;)
> I've looked for DOS drivers or other utilities for that
> card, and found nothing. I'm afraid, it'll be hard to
> find a PCI VGA card that has native support for DOS
> applications :-(
I might be wrong, but IIRC, ET6000 cards are backward-
compatible with ET4000; so you'll have two choices with
Arachne: VESA, and native ET4000 support.
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