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Article #20316Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM. VESA?
From: Rob Coleman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:14
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:14
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>Huh? It was my understanding that the VESA standard applied to the local >bus expansion *slot*, not to the cards that go into the slot. Am I >wrong? Someone please clarify. 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). Diamond itself is a "voting member" on the VESA committee, so at this point all of their boards comply in hardware (no software driver necessary). If you have an older one, you can get them to send you a BIOS update that will make it unnecessary to run a software driver to get VESA compatibility. The VESA hardware standard defines extensions to the video card that will be made in the future. I'm not as knowledgable about the hardware end of things (as I don't think that anyone has made use of it yet), but there is a "VESA connector" on my 24x. Hope this clears things up.. -- Rob Coleman ][ gt0449a@prism.gatech.edu ][ "I think I'm going bald!" Comp. Sci. ][ Georgia Institute of Technology ][ -Rush/COS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!news.miami.edu!ncar!gatech!prism!gt0449a From: gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM. VESA? Message-ID: <81983@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 27 Jan 93 03:14:52 GMT References: <1k49hqINNsj0@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <tim.89.728091337@src.cppa.utah.edu> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 21