To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: VBE 2.0
Message-ID: <19961112.190121.8023.0.aclemmer@juno.com>
References: <5652bd$tce AT loki DOT tor DOT hookup DOT net>
From: aclemmer AT juno DOT com (Aaron M Clemmer)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:00:56 EST

On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 17:15:12 GMT istvan AT outer-net DOT com (Stephen Marton)
writes:
>I was trying for a long time to get linear frame buffer under univbe
>(sdd 5.3). modeinfo.ModeAttributes & 0x8 says I've got it, but Charles
>Sandmann's vbetest says no (actually it checks MA & 0x80). So is my
>detection routine wrong, and isn't univbe supposed to give you lbf?
>I have a CL 5426 for what it's worth. Thanks in advance.

	UNIVBE can't give you what your hardware doesn't support.  If
your video card doesn't use a linear framebuffer memory scheme, then that
is that.  BTW, sdd 5.3 should include a utility to tell you whether your
video card supports either LFB or bank switching... I have no idea
whether or not it does.