Hello Maurice.

15 Sep 04 05:44, you wrote to me:

 MK> Hey Jasen!

 MK> Sep 14 12:08 04, Jasen Betts wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB>> IIRC you can get the exact same result under linux using the
 JB>> "svgatextmode"
 JB>> software, but I don't know of any full-screen editors (etc) for
 JB>> linux that support a 40 column display.

 MK> Yeah I had some problems with the 40 column display running at
 MK> 640x480, whatever bits, using matroxfb.  I haven't looked at the svga
 MK> libs in many years now.  Far too slow.

 JB>> Linux frambuffers seem to get worse with every new version. With
 JB>> a 2.2 kernel I could get 256 colours, with 2.4 only 16 colour
 JB>> mode will work, with 2.6 it doesn't work at all. perhaps with a
 JB>> 2.0 kernel I can run it in hicolor mode ? :)

 MK> Actually with the 2.6 kernels I managed to pull it out of the hat from
 MK> 2.6.6 upwards.

I guess it could be the age of this hardware...

Jasen

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