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Subject: Re: Allegro and SVGA
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 19:08:28 +1100
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I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but, when I got my new
graphics card, a lot of the modes had palette problems, but when I disabled
pci palette snoop in the bios, everything was fine, this might be what is
happening?

Walter Luke wrote:

>    I've written a procedure using Allegro to read in a 256 color bitmap
> from disk and display it on the screen. Using GFX_AUTODETECT, the colors
> came out all wrong. Upon further exploration, I discovered that the
> colors come out wrong when I use VESA2B or 2L modes, but work fine with
> VESA1.
>
>    Does anyone have any reason why VESA 2.0 isn't working properly?
> Also, how concerned should I be? Using the VESA 1.x mode the code should
> run on any decent computer, no?