Re: VESA Drivers

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From: John Naismith
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00

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In article: <4991431wnr@tangon.demon.co.uk>  woody <woody@tangon.demon.co.uk> 
writes:

<snip interesting but totally incorrect text>

Sorry Andrew, but when you see VESA think video. VESA = Video Equipment 
(manufacturers') Standards Association. It's a (sort of) API where the s/w 
manufacturer doesn't need to know the h/w details of the card to get decent 
performance.

VLB was originally intended purely for video (& got hijacked by 
IDE/SCSI/whatever). BTW EISA works better (faster & more efficiently) for SCSI & 
IDE drives than VLB does - after all it's what EISA was designed for. I believe 
Dell (up until 6-9 months ago) still gave you EISA with ISA/PCI on most systems.

As previously stated the original poster wants a VESA *driver*. As an aside it 
would have been interesting to find out why (always assuming the video card is 
VESA compliant) the game requires a driver which has to be provided by the user. 
All games I've seen bundle a driver. I was vaguely tempted by SU27 Flanker - but 
EF2000 won :)


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