i need a cga driver for xfree86

[smeezekitty]

i need a color graphics adapter driver for xfree86 (640x200 1 bpp)
and dont just tell me "hardware upgrade"
becuase the awnser is no

[smeezekitty]

anyone

[2x3i5x]

just to be sure I know wat you're asking ... the color graphics adapter, that's just graphics card?

What graphics card do you use if that's the case?

[smeezekitty]

as in the old color graphics adapter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

[smeezekitty]

 

[Salmon Trout]

A thousand bumping emoticons will not get you the answer you want. Xfree86=modern Xwindows. CGA=ancient hardware. I do not believe an XFree86 "driver" was ever implemented for the CGA.

Dont just tell me "hardware upgrade"
becuase the awnser is no

Then so it is for the CGA driver question. The CGA was the *censored* child of the IBM video adapter family. Unloved and soon abandoned. Your question was asked in 2000 in a Linux forum, and the answer came back "No, and why would anyone want to use a CGA with XFree86?"

[smeezekitty]

hercules is supported
that's from same date as CGA!
sure cga is horrible low res but still it should be supported
also EGA is supported thats ancient too
----edit----
for some reason cga is my favorett
i have win 3.1 on a cga driver even on VGA
i tried to force win 95 to run on CGA
i even wrote an emulator to run dos VGA programs (slowly) on CGA
i waws playing simcity cga the ohter day
and when cga is not possable i go EGA
i dont like VGA very much
i even wrote some dos games and an OS shell
that are compatable with CGA

[BC_Programmer]

if you actually ever owned a CGA monitor and adapter you would be glad to be rid of them.

i dont like VGA very much

you need to learn more about display technologies- there isn't necessarily a "CGA mode" or a "EGA mode" they are called that merely because that was when they were introduced.

"CGA" in my mind is 320x200 with 4 of 16 colours. Awful, just awful. This is why most people opted for the MDA at the time.

EGA added some modes. it still supported the CGA modes

VGA, which for some reason you don't like although I suspect no reason- added two main modes, 640x480  at 4bpp and 320x240 with 8bpp. other modes with more resolution could be gained by tweaking about with the VGA registers. the VGA also supported All of EGA and CGA's modes.

Anything above 640x480 with 256 colours is some form of SVGA.


windows 3.1 doesn't have a CGA driver, so you must be forcing it to use the Windows 3.0 driver.


you can't force windows 95 to run in CGA because it cannot run windows 3.0 drivers.

[smeezekitty]

actully powerload has a 3.1 cga driver
i dont like VGA because the 256 color mode
because evreyone uses that
i even wrote a program to make VGA text mode look like CGA
and LOCK out VGA graphics mode to make it only run EGA programs
and it also allows VGA to do some of the CGA tricks
i know i am strange and obsessed with CGA

[BC_Programmer]

i even wrote a program to make VGA text mode look like CGA

mode co40

and LOCK out VGA graphics mode to make it only run EGA programs

that's pointless. and stupid. just get a EGA or CGA card.

and it also allows VGA to do some of the CGA tricks

the only CGA "tricks" are to avoid snow on the screen. Oh guess what- VGA doesn't have snow in it's CGA modes. Regardless of wether you wait for the Vertical retrace.

[smeezekitty]

there are graphics mode tricks that are CGA only
also i like CGA dosbox it doesnt emulate overscan though
i am working on getting a real CGA asap

[BC_Programmer]

there are graphics mode tricks that are CGA only

examples?

[smeezekitty]

oldskool.org (known as trixter around the forums)

[Salmon Trout]

I think that imposing artificial restrictions on the type of solution required based on what you "like" in this way is kind of against the ethos of the site, personally.

[smeezekitty]

in english?
by the way here is a fairly modern software (10 yr old)
that supports cga
http://www.linct.org/cur/NewDeal/TS/235.htm