[openbeos] Re: intel_extreme driver (9xx support, continued)

On 10/13/06, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

No, there is no driver that does this, and there are even two reasons
for this:
a) the (pre VBE3) VESA BIOS needs a real mode (ie. vm86) environment to
work which neither BeOS nor Haiku deliver
b) it's generally a bad idea to use the BIOS if you can program the
chip itself. For example, this causes numerous problems in Linux with
the Intel driver, as there are only a number of VESA modes available,
and those might not fit your needs (or those of your wide screen
monitor).


Aah, that actually answers alot. Thank you.

Intel stated to be working on programming the video mode directly for
the X.org driver, and we should probably just wait to see what they
deliver. In any way, it should already be available as a beta in a
branch of the official repository; I just didn't find the time yet to
look at it.


I'll go hunting.

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Thank You
Mathew Schofield
mr.skoe@xxxxxxxxx

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