From: Joseph Morris <jpm AT it-he DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: svga
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:54:53 +0100
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Gautier wrote:
> 
> Damian Yerrick:
> 
> > Bank switching is different on each video card; VESA tries to fix
> > this, but implementations are extremely buggy.
> 
> However this is normalised by VESA 1.2 and works.

Unless you have a Cirrus Logic card..
I used my own custom video routines and I got reports that it
couldn't be run on nVidia cards despite offering 6 different
combinations of video mode:

15bpp linear
16bpp linear
15bpp banked
16bpp banked
15bpp cirrus hack
16bpp cirrus hack


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