From:	gregorio AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Detecting VESA
Date:	Sat, 07 Feb 1998 13:21:55 GMT
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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:21:10 -0600, "Jeremy Lounds"
<jlounds AT voyager DOT net> wrote:
>How can I detect if the graphics card is VESA compatible without trying to
>switch to a VESA mode and then checking the errors/lack of errors?

Look here ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/docs/00index.html 
At the end of the list (starting with v) you can find lots of VESA
programming tutorials.

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