Hi, what was the problem with running menuetos, with a Voodoo card, i know the problem has bean patched, but i have a vesa program, that has a vesa display problem running on the above card, but works OK on most other cards, just thought it may be the same problem as menuet ?.

The program does not run on MenuetOS.

Thanks for any help.

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ASHLEY4.

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Look at VESA2.INC from MenuetOS sources.

the problem with Voodoo is that 3DFx screwed up VESA support, i dont know what exactly causes the problem but its to do with how they implemented VESA on the card.

Thanks for replies.

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ASHLEY4.

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There is nothing wrong with VESA on Voodoo3 card.
It is working just perfectly with VESA code from my OS.

The problem is with programmers that do not read and do not understand VESA standards corectly

More clear: they assume Pitch to be the same as screen_width*bytes_per_pixel when in fact the standards clearely state that they CAN and in fact "sometimes" they are different.

One of the cards that uses such diferent pitches is Voddoo... but there are others...

Indeed on most new cards in order to avoid such programmer's miss interpretation hardware tries to make pitch==screen_width*bytes_per_pixel

That is the ONLY problem AFAIK.

Design your painting routines to use Pitch and not screen_width*bytes_per_pixel and you will be safe on ALL VESA 2.0 and VESA 3.0 cards

hmm, maybe that's why the 1024*768 mode of my card doesnt work on menuetos, when i try it, i get a weird wrong synchronisised image at top of the screen (like 300 pixels heigh)

If you only get the top part of the screen THEN it looks like and VESA 1.2 problem
like only accessing the first window at A0000 and having no correct bank switching routine for that specific video board.

It did happen to me when using VESA 1.2 cards without a proper bank switching routine. But that should not be a problem on Voodoo 3 cards as they have VESA 3.0

I do not think thats the problem in this case, it just put a 640x480 24bit bmp on screen, it checks for 24bpp or 32bpp. but does not work on a voodoo3.
Not even vesa mode numbers are standard with vesa.

Any one with a voodoo3, want to try it, get here: http://www.falconrybells.co.uk/
it comes as a iso burn to cd, it from my os, it's a test for my OS's atapi driver.
just burn it to cd and boot, it should put a bmp 640x480 24bit image from the cd to screen.

PS: it's the DemoVesa.zip

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ASHLEY4.

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Well, are you blindly setting up 24bit or 32bits modes?

Because AFAIK Voodoo3 only uses 16bit 565 modes and NO 24 or 32 bits

So you should enumerate or at least test available modes

Ooops ...and add fallback 16bits mode or even 8bits modes ... to your application.

You can not (safely) assume that a video board has 24/32bits modes available.

bogdanontanu, Thanks for the info, but no i test for 24 or 32 bpp or error message,
So it should give error ?.
you would think it did 24bits.

PS: You already need different function for 24 or 32 and then one for 16 or 8bit , it like writing 4 programs, it ends up bloatware .

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ASHLEY4.

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