To:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: 64K-color-mode screen addresses treated modulo 0x10000
Date:	Thu, 05 Jan 95 15:06:24 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

I wrote (quite awhile ago):
>> I wouldn't recommend the built-in VESA driver, because it is an old version,
>> and has a bad reputation of not working on many VESA-compatible cards.
>> Instead, get the file grx103m1.zip and use the VESADRV.VDR included there.

You asked:
>
> How exactly do I `use' VESADRV.VDR? Where do I copy it to or insert its name?

DJ replied to me earlier saying that the latest VESADRV.VDR is already
included in the latest go32, so you shouldn't bother searching for it
(unless you still haven't upgraded to 1.12maint2, that is).  However,
I still claim that it doesn't work well enough for me: I tried it with
2 VESA-compatible SVGAs and with UniVBE program, and it messed the screen
with all of them (I ran the GRTask example program from the distribution).

Maybe somebody out there who understands DJGPP graphics much better
than I do, can explain, why doesn't it work well?

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