A few comments regarding the Oak driver:

The original OTI driver, which supported the OTI-067/77 at 640x480x256, 
has been augmented with the following features:

	1) Supported resolutions/colors have been expanded to 640x480x32K,
	   800x600x256/32K, 1024x768x256, and 1280x1024x16.

	2) The OTI-087 (all variants) is now supported.  Video memory is 
	   correctly recognized.

The driver as it exists now is somewhat schizoid.  As the '87 
incorporates a completely different set of extended registers, I found it 
necessary to split its routines from the others.  Further, I did not have 
access to either a '67 or a '77 for testing the new resolutions.  If 
using them causes your monitor/video card to fry, your dog to bite you, 
and so forth, I warned you.  The driver works on my '87, and that's all I 
guarantee.  Period.

Heh.  Now, if someone wants to try them out ... let me know if they work.

New from last release:

32K modes now work for 640x480 and 800x600.  I found that the Sierra DAC 
information in VGADOC3.ZIP is, well, wrong.  But, then again, the 
information for the '87 was wrong also.

64K modes _do not_ work.  I can't even get Oak's BIOS to enter those modes.

I have included a 1280x1024x16 mode, but I haven't tested it.  My monitor 
can't handle that resolution.  According to the documentation, with 2 
megs the '87 should be able to do an interlaced 1280x1024x256 ... again, 
I couldn't get the BIOS to do the mode.  I haven't 2 megs anyway, so 
there it sits.

I have included routines for entering and leaving linear mode.  They 
_should_ work, but they don't.  It looks like a pointer to the frame 
buffer is not being passed to SVGALIB.  I've been fighting with this one 
for a month.  If anyone wants to play with this, let me know if it can be 
make to work.  I've got exams that I need to pass.

Tidbit: I pulled the extended register info out of the video BIOS.  When 
the information thus obtained failed to work, I procured the OTI-087 data 
book.  It appears that Oak's video BIOS sets various modes incorrectly 
(e.g. setting 8-bit color as 4, wrong dot clock frequencies, etc.).  Sort 
of makes me wonder ...

Christopher M. Wiles (a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu)
12 September 1994