Re: VESA Drivers

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From: Peter Hamilton
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <h8ySUBAa2ThxEwCG@johnpb.demon.co.uk>
           john@johnpb.demon.co.uk "John Bennett" writes:

> I am not sure what this means.     Could someone explain to me what a
> VESA driver is and where I can get one from?

Put simply, a VESA driver sits between your graphics card and the program
being run, to provide some hardware independent graphics functions. These
comply to a standard called VESA.

The program is probably looking for VESA v2 services, hence the error
message.

Download the following driver:
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/mirrors/simtel/msdos/graphics/univbe51.zip (604k)

Pete.
-- 
"Windows 95 supports non-Microsoft general applications in the same
 way that a rope supports a man about to be hanged."

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