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Article #20117Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM. VESA?
From: Dave Beeman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:43
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:43
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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). 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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!boulder!dogstar!dbeeman 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) Nntp-Posting-Host: dogstar.colorado.edu Reply-To: dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu 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 Lines: 17