Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:01:53 +0800 (GMT)
From:	Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To:	"J.J. van der Heijden" <J DOT J DOT vanderHeijden AT student DOT utwente DOT nl>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: VBE 2.0
In-Reply-To:	<32884693.2062133@news.student.utwente.nl>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SGI.3.93.961113080030.5636A-100000@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, J.J. van der Heijden wrote:

> 
> The  CL5426 is capable of framebuffering, but only if you have less
> than 14M RAM installed. Because of chip restrictions, the framebuffer
> must be in the first 16M, and the card itself can hold 2M RAM, so the
> buffer must start at 14M.
> 
> I use a CL5426 based card with 8M RAM and univbe 5.1 and I have no
> problems.
> 

Er, really?
I'm using a CL5426-based VLB card, and its linear framebuffer is at the
78MB boundary. It works perfectly in all supported modes, but the linear
buffer is needed to run it in HiColor (note: I'm using XFree86 under
Linux, not DOS).

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