From:	AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: VESA 3.0 or 2.0
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>hello, i am just wondering, I have written my own program to get into
>SVGA modes using VESA 2.0 a while back, before 3.0 came out (for DJGPP),
>now I have given my code to a bunch of people and some of them have said
>that it does't work on their computer returning VESA 2.0 Init Failed. 
>These guys (as far as I can tell) have relatively new Video Cards, like
>a Voodoo 3 so it should support *some* VESA at least, right???  now if
>the cards do support VESA, but only version 3.0, is this the cause of
>the program not working???  Might I add that I have tested my code on a
>sleuth of ATI video cards and a TNT2 card from Diamond and it worked
>fine... so I patiently await any comments you may have... thnx you.

I wrote a VBE wrapper myself (for Watcom, though), which works fine on my
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card.  My test program request VBE2, even though the card
supports VBE3.  So I don't think it's the card.  If you care to follow up in
e-mail, perhaps you can send the relevant source code and I can take a look at
it (if you don't have anything against that).

My question is, though, why not just use Allegro?

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AndrewJ

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