EH> - how to tell the card to remap the video ram
EH> - where to map it too (this depends on how much RAM you DO got)        
EH> - and how THEN the layout is, is it in bitplanes or are the pixels     
EH> together in   a byte (or several consecutive bytes), are there any     
EH> "skipped" ranges of   addresses, etc.                                  

That's what vesa 2.0 is for...
                        
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