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hello all,
I am trying to interface the VGA, however, it appears to be in text mode. I want to get it into mode 13h (320x240) but I can't seem to achieve this I looked at here to see which registers I need to set but I've for some reason I cant get it to work. Are these all the registers I need to set and are the values correct?

anyone?

As usual your question is entirely too vague to help you. You want help with assembly language and haven't even told us anything about your programming environment and boot environment.

Please explain in detail what you are doing, in what way, on what platform, in what kernel, posting the relevant part of code you have and explaining where you put it.

Unless you're 100% sure your card is completely VGA complaint however -- I wouldn't set video modes manually, but use BIOS calls instead. What little I remember about banging my head against that is that there were protection registers I needed to unprotect but never did manage to find.

OK you want the full details here they are. I am using an L4 microkernel (pistachio), so I don't know how you came to the assumption that I was using assembly in the first place, not because I asked about assembly in my latter posts. Anyways, because of this, I need to access exact memory addresses and I am on an x86 platform, using grub, thus, there is no programming environment as such. Now does it make much of a difference knowing this information??? And beside, if the registers and register values are in fact correct this information wouldn't be necessary now would it? But never mind anyway, I got it to work.

Mostly because it's going to be very difficult to not use assembly when dealing with hardware registers and/or raw BIOS calls. So you are modifying grub's source code to write hardware registers? Or what? There must be something, somewhere that builds this program, even if your microkernel environment can't build it itself. That's good, because you've still told me nothing useful and showed me no code and given me no clues to what you're actually trying to do in what manner where how.

We've spent entire threads trying to figure out the shape of the elephant when you've asked questions before. BE SPECIFIC.

Not to be rude but if you understand the microkernel concept, you would grasp more of what is going on. And, also, if I showed you code from an L4 microkernel program would you understand it? The reason I asked the question in such a way is because the info that I'm looking for is mostly universal. And one more thing I'm not modifying the grub source I am booting using grub, you asked for boot environment, I assumed this is what you were talking about.