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From: Shawn Hargreaves <slh100 AT york DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Code: V_SYNC and asm for "far" data example
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:26:18 +0100
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Orlando Andico wrote:

> question with the linear VESA mode: I understand that to do linear 
> mapping you need VESA 2.0? or is VESA 1.2 sufficient? I have a Cirrus 
> 5428 card which seems perfectly happy doing linear mapping (at the 78MB 
> boundary) but since it's a fairly old card I'm not sure if it is VESA 1.2 
> or 2.0.... (not likely this).

Probably VESA 1.2: there aren't many VBE 2.0 implementations even with 
very recent cards. But all is not lost: you can grab a copy of UniVBE 
from Scitech, which implements VBE 2.0 for pretty much every SVGA card 
that has ever been made...


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