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From: Robin Johnson <robbat2 AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: VESA 3.0 or 2.0
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Antti Koskipää wrote:
> 
> I think you should know that V3's have serious bugs in their
> VBE BIOSes. Low-resolution hicolor modes do not work properly,
> they crash the machine. Beware.
> 
> I have a solution, if you're interested...
I use one as in my main system, and I haven't hit any bugs...

Could you describe exactly in which modes it happens?
Or provide code that shows the bug in action?

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