"Bill Layer" <blayer at qwest.net> wrote:
>
> Obviously, the DOS driver will cease to exist after DOS dies, so is the
> point of the driver simply to switch modes? This is an approach that I
> have not yet tried.

Well, it doesn't live long, but it should be long enough for the kernel to
initialize the video to the correct mode..  I managed to get it to work
once or twice, but VESA video is so slow that it was pointless (other than
to see Tux).

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