Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/15/20:20:58
Silent Dreamer wrote:
>
> > I can't figure out how to enable Linear Addressing for the Trident 9440
> > chip. Apparently "port : 0x3D4, index 0x21, bit 5" has to be set to
> > enable Linear Addressing and I can't get it to set. I have a Pentium
> > 75Mhz w/24Mb of EDO memory and 1Mb of video memory, I'm compiling in DOS
> > with DJGPP's 32-bit Protected Mode C++ compiler. Any help would be
> > greatly appreciated!
> >
>
> I think it would be easyer to use VBE 2.0 interface, no ?
> That way it will work with other cards.
> Visit:
> http://www.scitechsoft.com/down_dev.html
My card only supports Vesa 1.2. Supporting VBE 2.0 shouldn't be too
difficult and I plan to implement it but from what I've heard there are
a lot of cards that support linear addressing but not VBE 2.0.
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