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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: What fake display adapter do you use   
   29 Jan 11 13:58:58   
   
   Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7   
   comp.os.os2.misc   
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   mp.os.os2.programmer.misc:1870 comp.os.os2.misc:2812   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > PCI Class Display, type VGA   
   > Address 0 is a Memory Address (anywhere in 0-4Gb, Prefetchable) :    
   > E0000000h   
   >   
      
   That tells me that it has just the one mapping of the frame buffer, and    
   that if it has a non-VGA I/O register bank it doesn't advertize it in    
   the proper PCI way.   
      
   > If I get a chance I will boot a Knoppix DVD on the same virtual    
   > hardware and post you what lspci -vvv thinks about it.   
   >   
      
   That would be interesting and informative.   
      
   > This is VirtualBox 2.0.4 btw but I don't think it changes - still    
   > works on 4.0.0 which is the latest that I've tried (USB is another    
   > matter which is why I'm still on 2.0.4).   
   >   
      
   If it's a simple dumb framebuffer device, I wouldn't expect it to    
   (visbly) change.   
      
      
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