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@Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:33:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: What does VESA mean & why doesn't it ever work? [IMP copy]
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:04:21 -0800, Kevin McCoy wrote:

>The VESA is a hangover from MSDOS and early windoze days.  It defines a
>bunch of low-res graphics and text modes supported by monitors of the day.
>I think it tops out at something like 800x600x16. Horizontal and vertical
>sweep speeds were ridiculously low by today's standards. Can you spell

This is not true.  You can get 1600x1200 at 85Hz on a VBE 3.0 graphics card.

>they now all need specialized drivers to access the higher
>performance modes. 

This is true, but not for the reason you state.  You need
"specialized" drivers to 
enable hardware acceleration.  VESA modes are unaccelerated.


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