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Remove mention of the unusable BIOS VBE driver from user-guide.

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Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2014-06-11 19:34:30 +02:00
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@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ limited but works on most systems.
You can change the display resolution using the `chvideomode` program. However,
you need a suitable kernel driver to do the mode setting. The current release
only has a simple BGA driver, which works in virtual machines such as Qemu,
VirtualBox or Bochs. A VBE driver also exists, however, it is not yet merged
into the mainline version because it causes problems on x86_64 due to missing
BIOS call support. Note that some programs does not work outside of VGA Text
VirtualBox or Bochs. Note that some programs does not work outside of VGA Text
Mode because the dispd library doesn't yet have a VGA->framebuffer converter.
The BGA driver can support virtually any resolution, but since the interface