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First post, by JaNoZ

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Hi

Does anyone has a working vesa driver for the S3 805 chip?
I have tried the card and there is no support, and all univbe versions does not work with it.

Thanks

Reply 2 of 4, by vetz

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The card uses VESA 1.2, so any games requiring VESA 2.0 and you're out of luck I believe.

I could not find a VESA 1.2 to 2.0 driver for this card (S3 have drivers for newer cards, but not this one).

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Reply 3 of 4, by JaNoZ

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My Mirage V7 has no bios vesa support at all.
And univbe does not detect it, manual mode seems no selection.
I have no original software from V7 about any vesa support.
Will check the sites later this day and test this evening if one works, but i doubt.

Does anyone has a bios that i can burn to this card eprom to support newer vga bios and vesa support?
this is the only S3 805-p card i have so i cannot exchange, or will some pci s3 bios work on VLB?

Reply 4 of 4, by JaNoZ

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Univesa Works vesa 1.0, afterwards i could run univbe 6.7 for vesa 2.0
The card is not too bad.

I have a S3 928 with vram only 1mb.
Should it be possible to get some extra dip vram somewhere? to get to a whopping 2MB