When booting into QRTP with the filesystem image file install,
would running SciTec’s UniVesa/UniVBE/Display Dr. work to
provide VESA 2.0 support? I’ve heard it will work with BeOS.
Of course tricks like that don’t work on a partition install
of QRTP or BeOS. 
Gregg E. <gregg1@valint.net> wrote:
: When booting into QRTP with the filesystem image file install,
: would running SciTec’s UniVesa/UniVBE/Display Dr. work to
: provide VESA 2.0 support? I’ve heard it will work with BeOS.
We should provide Vesa 2 support automatically. Does the
graphics configuration program not show Vesa modes?
Are you having the problem where the video modes are not
detected? We are working on that problem and hope to have
this resolved very soon.
: Of course tricks like that don’t work on a partition install
: of QRTP or BeOS.
Gregg E. <gregg1@valint.net> wrote:
When booting into QRTP with the filesystem image file install,
would running SciTec’s UniVesa/UniVBE/Display Dr. work to
provide VESA 2.0 support? I’ve heard it will work with BeOS.
No. We are not actually running inside Windows or DOS. We are essentially
using DOS as a boot loader and that’s about it.
I tried it on a 1995 vintage Dell Latitude XPi P75D. It has a
Cirrus Logic GD 54xx series video chip which does support 16 bit
color at the native LCD resolution of 640x480. Unfortunately
the video BIOS is not VESA 2.0 compliant so I get stuck with
4bit video, 16 colors. EWWWW! Evidentally BeOS doesn’t do as
full a job of cleaning out the memory as QRTP. I’ll try some
different stuff and see what happens.
Steve Tomkins wrote:
Gregg E. <> gregg1@valint.net> > wrote:
: When booting into QRTP with the filesystem image file install,
: would running SciTec’s UniVesa/UniVBE/Display Dr. work to
: provide VESA 2.0 support? I’ve heard it will work with BeOS.We should provide Vesa 2 support automatically. Does the
graphics configuration program not show Vesa modes?Are you having the problem where the video modes are not
detected? We are working on that problem and hope to have
this resolved very soon.: Of course tricks like that don’t work on a partition install
: of QRTP or BeOS. >
pete@qnx.com wrote:
Gregg E. <> gregg1@valint.net> > wrote:
When booting into QRTP with the filesystem image file install,
would running SciTec’s UniVesa/UniVBE/Display Dr. work to
provide VESA 2.0 support? I’ve heard it will work with BeOS.No. We are not actually running inside Windows or DOS. We are essentially
using DOS as a boot loader and that’s about it.
They are using UniVESA etc when booting BeOS with the shortcut
from within Windows. Evidentally BeOS leaves that part of memory
untouched when booting “dirty”.
I tried it on a 1995 vintage Dell Latitude XPi P75D. It has a
Cirrus Logic GD 54xx series video chip which does support 16 bit
color at the native LCD resolution of 640x480. Unfortunately
the video BIOS is not VESA 2.0 compliant so I get stuck with
4bit video, 16 colors. EWWWW! Evidentally BeOS doesn’t do as
full a job of cleaning out the memory as QRTP. I’ll try some
different stuff and see what happens.