Re: CVS updates/VGA mode setting

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James Simmons <jsi...@ac...> wrote:
> About as many that support VESA 2.0. I have 6 video cards and not one
> supports VESA 2.0. Even fewer support VESA 3.0. Yes their is a VESA 3.0
> standard that allows nice things like changing the video mode after boot
> time via BIOS calls in protect mode.

	I once wrote a device driver for Linux that used the
VESA 3 protected mode code, but it wouldn't work for
setting video modes for ANY card that advertised itself
as VESA 3. This was in Spring '99, and things may have changed
since then, but I doubt it. 

	A contact I had at SciTech said that the problem lay in the
fact that there were NO commercially availible testing suites for the 
VESA 3.0 protect mode spec.

	(You can get my code at: http://zhrodague.net/~jmcc/vesa3/ )

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