From: gmontem AT taurus (GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro's VESA 2.0 support flakey
Date: 16 Dec 1996 01:03:40 GMT
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Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: Fortunately I'm now back on the net, so such drastic measures won't be
: neccessary :-)

Welcome back, Shawn!

: You say the VESA 2.0 detection fails completely? ie. you get a "VBE 2.0
: not available" error? That does sound extremely weird.

Yep. The function set_gfx_mode (or whatever it was that sets the video
mode) doesn't return zero when I try to set a resolution of 320x240 with
either GFX_VESA2B or GFX_VESA2L.

: A couple of things spring to mind that it would be worth trying. Does
: UniVBE support your card? I know it shouldn't be neccessary, but it

SDD/UniVBE does not work because it currently does not support the
Rendition chip.

: would be worth trying it to see if you get the same results. Also, could
: you try running the VBETEST program that SciTech distribute along with

VBETEST ran with no problems.  This is what VBETEST reported:

   OEM String: Rendition Verite 1000
   Version: VBE 2.0 with 4096 Kb memory

I tried to Interactive tests and video modes 320x240x8-bit Banked and
Linear worked perfectly fine.

: If that doesn't shed any light on the problem, I'll knock out some test
: programs for you to try.

I would be more than happy to try out some test programs.  My e-mail
address just in case is:

   gmontem AT sfsu DOT edu

Thanks,
Happy Holidays!

-george