From: Joseph Morris <jpm AT it-he DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: svga
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 18:51:09 +0100
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:13:25 +0100, Joseph Morris <jpm AT it-he DOT org>
> wrote:
> 
> >gdemont AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
> >>
> >> > > However this is normalised by VESA 1.2 and works.
> >>
> >> Joseph Morris:
> >>
> >> > Unless you have a Cirrus Logic card..
> >>
> >> Did you get fresh version of a VESA driver ?
> >
> >Yes.  I was always looking, after the ones on that site were made.
> >It still couldn't support banking using the VESA code, and there
> >was no VBE 2.0 support for that model except for UNIVBE which was
> >shareware.
> >Eventually I ditched it, until I had to fix the problem for
> >someone else.
> 
> There is a UniVBE clone that supports VBE/AF:
>   http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/

This is true.  But it didn't exist at the appropriate time,
and anyway it only provides VBE/AF, not Vesa 2 or bugfixes
to the BIOS.

> 
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