From: Carl B <carlb AT frugal DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Linear Addressing
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:47:25 -0700
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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.