On 2009/05/07 07:36 (GMT+0200) Roger Oberholtzer composed:
I wonder how far back Nvidia support goes? I recall a legacy driver that kept support for older cards at some level. Of course, that means that the cards were at least still supported at a level equivalent to when they were purchased. ATI, OTOH, simply dropped their 'older' cards altogether.
You guys seem to have a funny notion of the meaning of legacy support. Why should ATI provide proprietary driver support for old chips when the open source drivers get the job done? OTOH, you NVidia users ought to check for *real* legacy support. Which, if any, of these are supported by your NVidia card?: 109h 132x25 text 10Ah 132x43 text 10Bh 132x50 text 10Ch 132x60 text Unless using a "legacy" card, likely none. In contrast, ATI had proprietary 132 column text modes before the VESA spec offered any, and every ATI card I've checked continues to support both its proprietary modes, and at least one of the VESA modes. I run a DOS spreadsheet in 132 column mode 24/7. Without ATI, I doubt would be able to with a PCIe card. For support from anything other than ATI I'd have to have a PCI slot or an ISA slot for the gfxcard. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/svga132c.html -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org