From: Niklas <d95-nlu AT nada DOT kth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: VESA 2.0 and NEAR PTR
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:02:06 +0100
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> The videomode 0x4101 isn't defined according to the SciTech vbe2.0 Core
> infofile, because VESA videomodes are only 14 bits wide:
> 
> ".....the optional VBE mode numbers are 14 bits wide. To initialize a
> VBE mode, the mode number is passed in the BX register to VBE Function
> 02h (Set VBE mode)."
> 
> So what you have to do is to SET the mode 0x0101 with bit 14 enabled
> (that is BX=0x4101), and SEARCH after the mode 0x0101 in the
> VideoModeList.
> Some VESA TSR's are actually storing both 0x0101 and the 0x4101 "mode"
> in the VideoModeList, but according to the (unofficial) specs from
> SciTech, 0x4101 isn't a VideoMode so it should't be located in the
> VideModeList.
> Hope this solved the problem.

> 
> Regards,
> LoveDoorFoxor /Talent
> http://www.idb.hist.no/~jans

I got the mode from GRX 2.0 in djgpp, the program VESAINFO.EXE so I
guess it should work, and the above program enters the mode and says
it's got a LFB..

Niklas