From: "Marp" <Marp AT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Question.
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 18:04:41 -0500
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BRAD MURPHY <bjmurphy AT sympatico DOT ca> wrote in message
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>   I recently downloaded allegro and I am currently doing an allegro
> tutorial.  All the programs that I have attempted to run with allegro so
> far have worked perfectly.  But with Allegro there are some test
> programs to see if everthing was downloaded properly.  When I try to run
> afinfo.exe I get an error which reads:
>
> You should have a vbeaf.drv  file in the root of your c: drive
>
> Is this a major problem or should I just ignore this?
>

You can safely ignore it. The afinfo test program gives you information
about your video card's vbe/af driver. However, very few card actually have
one, so if yours doesn't have one allegro can't use vbe/af on your machine,
and can't give you information about it.