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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio...
Subject: [9fans] Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI (S3/Virge)
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 01:01:50 -0400

At usenix, Jim and I spoke briefly about vga hell.
One idea he mentioned was to use the VESA bios calls
to set the graphis mode very early in the boot process,
while the system is still in real mode.  That's an
appealing idea, if it could be done.