Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 13:32:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: HELP::Plz check my code for some errors/optimization. (VESA.CPP)
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> I don't know exactly how many cards this will fail on, but from my
> personal experience, text output didn't work at all in SVGA modes on my
> old Tseng board, and on this Matrox it only functions correctly in 256
> color modes (nothing is displayed in truecolor).

Oh, so your caveat is only limited to SVGA-specific modes, right?

I won't expect standard BIOS functions to work in modes which aren't
standard VGA ones.  I thought you were telling that some cards don't
support function 0Eh even in standard modes.