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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT efn.org>]

I originally thought that a video card without vesa modes
would not work with Xvesa, but I am using BL3 with a Tseng
ET4000 (from around 1990) that predates vesa.  This is in
640x480x8 mode, which became a very common SVGA mode.  Also,
BL3 runs fine on a Trident SVGA with vesa 1.2 in 800x600x12
mode.  Vesa 2.0 should be an assurance that Xvesa will work,
but it seems not to be an absolute requirement.
Ken Martwick

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Knut Backe wrote:

> You can use 'Xvesa -listmodes' to find which resolutions and
> colour depths your card supports. Xvesa requires a vesa 2.0
> compliant card and vesa 2.0 was published at the end of 1994
> (if I remember correctly). Cards that doesn't support vesa 2.0
> should only support standard vga, i.e. 640x480 at 16 colours.
>
> More info about Xvesa can be found here:
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xvesa.1.html
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xkdrive.1.html
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