[Oberon] video configuration for a Toshiba 205CDS.

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Hi Peter,

[...]
> Init=bb0501b8024fcd10
> Strings for other chips are noted at the end of 
> SVGA.Display.Mod. 
> How can the Init string for the CT65550 be constructed?

some stuff on the following page might help you in
contructing the init string:
http://www.asiliant.com/65550.htm

Especially what Asiliant calls the data sheet i.e.
http://www.asiliant.com/pdf/ds177_5.pdf appears
to contain the relevant information ...

regards
--
  Bernhard Treutwein
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PETER EASTHOPE [mailto:peasthope at shaw.ca] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:00 AM
> To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Oberon] video configuration for a Toshiba 205CDS.
> 
> 
> Folk,
> 
> Native Oberon is installed on a Toshiba 205CDS laptop.
> The video chip is a CT65550 which supports VESA 2.0.
> The machine lacks a floppy drive; video must be 
> configured with config strings rather than with Config 
> in Oberon0.
> 
> The last two sections of "http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/display.html" 
> seem pertinent but I miss a few details.  
> 
> Should these strings be set?
> Display="Displays."
> DDriver="SVGA"
> Or just this one?
> Display="SVGA"
> [Documentation for DDriver along with Display 
> would be helpful.]
> 
> The example in the Web page refers to an IBM 760ED
> with this Init string.
> Init=bb0501b8024fcd10
> Strings for other chips are noted at the end of 
> SVGA.Display.Mod. How can the Init string for the CT65550 be 
> constructed?
> 
> Thanks,        ... Peter E.
> 
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