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- Subject: Re: VESA Support
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.191654.16112@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:16:54 GMT
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- References: <Dec.20.12.03.13.1992.7156@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec20.225018.19294@netcom.com>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec20.225018.19294@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
- >>Windows 3.1 DOES come with a built-in VESA driver,doesn't it? 800x600x16.
- >I beleive you are talking about the "general card" drivers for win and os/2.
- >These drivers use the VESA standard mode set call number for 800x600x16
- >(6a isn't it ?). These drivers take advantage of the fact that no bank
- >switching is required to access the mode (the entire video memory fits into
- >64kb). For higher resolutions, no such drivers are possible.
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- Guess what -- that's not so.
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- IBM has done it (in OS/2 2.1 beta). Those drivers have "leaked" out,
- as I've mentioned before.
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- It depends on BVHSVGA.DLL and a proper SVGADATA.PMI file.
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