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- The Universal VESA TSR
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-
- Copyright (C) 1993 Kendall Bennett
- All rights reserved.
-
- This file written by Matthew Hildebrand,
- with excerpts from UNIVESA.DOC by Kendall Bennett.
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- WHAT IS IT?
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- The Universal VESA TSR, or UNIVESA, is Copyright (c) 1993 by Kendall
- Bennett; it was not written by the author of TGE, but is included with the
- TGE package as a courtesy to those without VESA BIOS drivers for their
- SuperVGA cards. It may also be of use to TGE software developers, who are
- allowed to distribute UNIVESA with their programs free of charge, so long
- as UNIVESA remains unmodified.
-
- UNIVESA (not UNIVBE) is currently at version 4.2; however, version 3.2 is
- included with the TGE package because newer versions are no longer freely
- usable. If you are interested in obtaining a newer version anyway, refer
- to the WHERE TO GET THE LATEST VERSION section of this document.
-
- UNIVESA is a small Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program which
- implements the revision 1.2 VESA BIOS extensions. By having a video card
- which has a VESA compatible BIOS, or by installing this TSR, programs that
- support the VESA programming interface will work correctly with your
- SuperVGA.
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- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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- UNIVESA contains '386 dependant code, so it will only run on machines that
- have an 80386 or better CPU. Currently UNIVESA supports the following
- SuperVGA chipsets (note that not all of these have been fully tested):
- - ATI Technologies 18800, 28800
- - Ahead A & B
- - Chips & Technologies 82c451/452/453
- - Everex
- - Genoa Systems GVGA
- - OAK Technologies OTI-037C, OTI-067, OTI-077
- - Paradise PVGA1A, WD90C00/10/11/30/31
- - NCR 77C20/21/22E
- - Trident 88/8900
- - Video7 V7VGA versions 1-5
- - Tseng Labs ET3000, ET4000
- - AcuMos AVGA2
- - S3 86c911/924/801/805/928
- - Advance Logic AL2101 SuperVGA
- - MXIC 86010 SuperVGA
- - Primus 2000 SuperVGA
- - RealTek 3106 SuperVGA
- - Cirrus CL-GD 5422 SuperVGA
- If TGE does not support your SuperVGA's chipset directly, or if its support
- is buggy in some way, install UNIVESA and try again.
-
- The Universal VESA TSR seems to have problems with QEMM, since QEMM does
- something weird with the Video BIOS. In order to fix this problem, you
- should use the QEMM 'exclude' options to exclude the video BIOS area; do so
- by including "EXCLUDE=C000-C1FF" in the QEMM options.
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- HOW DO I INSTALL IT?
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- You can install the TSR from the command line, or from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file. Don't worry about installing it twice; it will automatically detect
- if you have already installed it.
-
- To install UNIVESA simply type "univesa" from the command line. It will
- determine what type of SuperVGA card you have installed and install itself
- accordingly.
-
- You may also use command line options to override the the automatic video
- card detection logic. The following help message is produced by typing
- 'univesa -h' at the command line:
-
- Options are:
- -v - Check for VESA BIOS first
- -s<name> - Force detection of SuperVGA 'name'
- -c<x> - Force detection of SuperVGA chipset (numerical id)
- -m<size> - Force memory size to 'size'
- -d<x> - Force DAC type (0:VGA, 1:15 bit, 1:16 bit, 3:24 bit)
- -i - Do not perform SuperVGA detection
-
- It is possible the SuperVGA detection code will hang the machine on
- old VGA/SVGA cards. You can optionally force the program to work with
- any combination of card, chipset, memory size and DAC, but unless you
- specify the -i option, unspecified values will be filled in
- automatically for you.
-
- Thus, if the detection code did not correctly identify your video card
- configuration, you can force UNIVESA to work with the correct values.
-
- When installed, UNIVESA takes up approximately 9 kb of memory. All of the
- code required to detect the video adapter and available video modes is
- removed after the program is installed, saving on the amount of memory
- required. You may load the TSR high.
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- WHERE TO GET THE LATEST VERSION
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- You can probably download the latest shareware version of the package from
- your local BBS, or you via the internet using ftp from Simtel20 or garbo
- (and their mirrors). However, the absolute latest version will always be
- available from the following ftp site:
-
- godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au (131.170.14.2): kjb/MGL/univbe??.zip
-
- The official support BBS for SciTech Software products is PC Connection
- Australia. This BBS has 12 9600 bps modems supporting MNP2-4 and MNP5 data
- compression. You can log on and download SciTech Software files for no
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- hour in connect charges (payable via credit card). You can send mail to
- SciTech software as a non-registered user by mailing the userid SciTech.
- To access PC Connection:
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- PC Connection Australia BBS
- Ph: (03) 388 0909
- Files: Scitech file library area
- Support: Scitech discussion forum area
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- CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
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- The author of the Universal VESA TSR, Kendall Bennett, may be reached at
- any of the following addresses:
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- Internet: kjb@citri.edu.au
- Compuserve: 100237,2213
- PC Connection: SciTech
-
- Snail Mail: Kendall Bennett
- SciTech Software
- G.P.O. Box 4216NN
- Melbourne 3001
- AUSTRALIA
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- LEGAL STUFF
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- Since this software is free, it is supplied WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
- even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. It is supplied as it is, in the hope the people will find it
- useful, and that it will advance the state of the art of computer software.
-
- All registered trademarks in this document belong to their respective
- owners.
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- End of document.
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