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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: off/topic
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:17:47 CST
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> (2) Is it possible to make the Scitech's UniVBE driver provide VBE 2.0 Linear
> framebuffer services on every SVGA card? 

No, this is hardware dependent.  One example I am aware of - ET4000 chip based
cards can do a linear frame at the 14Mb mark on ISA cards - but only if the
machine has 14Mb or less of memory.  So upgrading a 8Mb or 12Mb ISA machine to
16Mb may cause you to loose linear framebuffer access!

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