From: "Damian Yerrick" <snews AT pineight DOT 8m DOT comMUNIST-PIGS-AOL>
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Subject: Re: Linux problem with Allegro WIP 3.9.28
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:53:59 GMT
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"Aigars Mahinovs" <aigarius AT zednet DOT lv> wrote:
>Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >"Aigars Mahinovs" <aigarius AT zednet DOT lv> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can someone tell me why when I try to set grafic resolution better
> >> that 320x200x8bit, I get error "Linear adressing required"
> >
> > Do you have a *really* (pre-VESA 2) old video card?
>
> I have Cirrus Logic GD5428 with 1 Mb of video memory.
> It has *some* VESA compartibility, but I don't know what version.
> Note that everything works fine in DOS/Win98 (up to 1024*728*8bit or
800*600*16bit )

Try running the command
  startx
before running your Linux Allegro program.
Tell us what blows up.

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