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@Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: What does VESA mean & why doesn't it ever work? [IMP copy]
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Kris Steenhaut wrote:

> >Can someone please explain why all SVGA VESA compatible cards
default to 1990
> >16-color VGA only in both Win9X & OS/2?
> >
> Because for anything else than 16 colours needs  a specific driver.
>
> >  What the heck is this standard for if
> >not to give SVGA minimum (800x600 256-color) to all video cards?
> >
> Because anything alse than 640*480 does needs a  speceific driver too.

That's not really true.  IBM's GENGRADD or SciTech SNAP in VBE mode will
offer any modes available in the VESA BIOS, although unaccelerated.  MCP2
has these options as part of the install (and Windows XP can also run on a
VBE driver), but Warp4 and Win98 did not.


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