Hello Maurice!

11 Jul 2021 04:06, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> have you tryed booting vesa fb0 ?

 MK> Not since the Paleolithic.  Besides that requires a 4:3 monitor which 
 MK> I currently lack.

incorrect, vesa does not enforce aspect ratio

i had vesa on 1600x1200 monitor with 8 penguins, i still have that picture

vesa is what to do if others does not work

 BP>> if that works its just missing firmware or unsupported uhd in
 BP>> kernel

 MK> So far I am up to a bootable 5.13.1 kernel and it still doesn't even 
 MK> try to display penguins.  :-/

take that graphic card out and return it to the store as non working :)

 BP>> loadlin.exe gentoo with msdos-splash
 BP>> i remember this dos program, mostly used on floppy disks to boot
 BP>> linux, shameless

 MK> There was also a win95 version of it (desktop icon) that when you 
 MK> double clicked on it, it would shut down win95 and fire up a linux 
 MK> partition without a reboot.

and the loadlin.exe existed for os/2 if i remember aswell

i am just happy now that msdos chromoium edge is open source now :)

change the msdos to run on framebuffers so chrome do work, hehe

 MK> Shameless for sure.

+1


 Regards Benny

... too late to die young :)

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