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Around 2002 when I was playing with Linux from old Red Hat CDs from a thick book, I did play with SVGATextMode (it is mentioned below) The system I was experim
by tenebrisalietum 4y ago
Around 2002 when I was playing with Linux from old Red Hat CDs from a thick book, I did play with SVGATextMode (it is mentioned below)
The system I was experimenting on was a mid-90's 120MHz ancient Packard Bell PC with 56MB of RAM in SIMMs (had that famed bad CMD640 IDE chip). Had a Cirrus Logic VGA adapter onboard.
I remember being able to set all kinds of crazy text resolutions - like lower than 80x25, which was funny.
I also remember in the quest for the highest text resolution - there was some setting about memory clock speed being a controllable setting, higher clock speeds needed for higher text resolutions, and if it was set too fast dots would crawl on the screen.