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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Ken Martwick wrote:

> 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

I have a bunch of older ISA video cards which are not VESA anything, which 
I used to use with UNIVESA universal vesa driver  in DOS.  Load that first 
and then you can get up to 1024x768x256.  The cards would sometimes show 
more colors with their own Windows drivers (or even Compushow drivers).  
Perhaps Xvesa loads a univesa-like driver first?

Tseng, Trident, Cirrus worked with Univesa.  Oak needed its own vesa 
driver (otivbe?).  

> 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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