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- From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
- Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM. VESA?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.184341.8030@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1k49hqINNsj0@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <tim.89.728091337@src.cppa.utah.edu> <81983@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:43:41 GMT
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- In article <81983@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
- |>
- |> The VESA standard as it applies to video cards is twofold: The VESA
- |> software standard provides (through hardware BIOS calls or a loaded
- |> driver) standardized access to SVGA modes (such as 800x600, 1024x768,
- |> 640x480x256, etc).
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- Many of the newer svga cards, accelerated or not, are compatible with the
- VESA standard video BIOS calls when used in DOS applications. Could someone
- post or email a brief summary of the VESA extended mode video BIOS calls?
- For example, what values are loaded into the AX and BX registers to set the
- mode to 1024x768, 256 colors for a video card which claims to support the
- VESA modes? If you know of an archive site where a doc file can be found,
- this would also be a big help. (I didn't see anything like this on SIMTEL.)
-
- Thanks,
- Dave Beeman - dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
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