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- Log of BUGS and problems with the Universal VESA VBE
- ----------------------------------------------------
-
- This file documents known problems with the Universal VESA VBE. SciTech
- Software have done their best to try to fix all know problems, but some
- still persist and may well be limitations in the particular video controller
- hardware and may not be fixable.
-
- Trident 8900 chipsets:
-
- - The Trident 8900 chipset does not seem to be able to page flip
- the 1024x768 16 color video mode, even though it works for all
- other video modes. Probably a bug in the chipset, since it does
- seem to work on the newer 8900C video cards.
-
- Tseng Labs ET3000AX chipsets:
-
- - The 800x600x16 color mode seems to wrap the 256k boundary, and at
- this stage there is now known solution.
-
- Weitek 5186/5286 chipsets:
-
- - For the moment the support seems to work, however there is a small
- bug that causes the card to do strange things after a mode has been
- set a number of times.
-
- Chips & Technologies 82c45x chipsets:
-
- - These chipsets seem to not be working at all at the moment, and the
- problem is being looked into.
-
- Compaq QVision chipsets:
-
- - The Compaq QVision cards are detected however the support is
- currently not working. This is currently being looked into.
-
- S3 chipsets:
-
- - The S3 86c911 has some severe bugs in the extended CRT addressing
- code in 1024x768 16 color modes. Page flipping works but looks
- disgusting (bottom 1/8th of the screen is trashed). This bug is
- fixed in the 924 and later chipsets.
-
- - Seems to be some bugs in the B-step 801/805 chipsets that cause the
- UniVBE to do strange things. Works on all the ones that I have
- tested.
-
- Video7 chipsets:
-
- - Extended CRT addressing does not seem to be enable correctly in the
- standard VGA 16 and 256 color modes.
-
- ATI Mach32:
-
- - Even though the ATI Mach32 chipset can have a TrueColor DAC on board,
- and can support HiColor and TrueColor modes, these modes are only
- available to the accelerator. It is possible to initiliase these
- modes for direct framebuffer access, however they do not behave as
- normal VGA modes (the usual VGA CRT controller status registers
- remain idle, hence code that waits for a vertical retrace will
- simply hang in an infinite loop). Thus support for these modes
- is not provided (even though the ATI VVESA.COM program attempts
- to support these mode - it also causes many programs to hang for
- the same reason).
-
- 320x200x256 standard VGA mode:
-
- - Many SuperVGA chipsets seems to disable the bank switching registers
- in the VGA standard 320x200x256 video mode, and hence extended page
- flipping techniques do not work. This may be solveable for some
- chipsets, or it may well be a hardware related problem (backwards
- compatability with the standard VGA). The chipsets that are known to
- currently suffer from this are:
-
- Cirrus Logic 54xx
- ATI
- Video7
- NCR
- Oak
-
- QEMM memory manager:
-
- - QEMM does some wierd things with the video BIOS, so you may encounter
- problems when using the Universal VESA VBE with QEMM installed.
- You will need to use the exclude option to get it to work at all
- (see the readme file).
-