Message-Id: <199908111957.OAA21982@darwin.sfbr.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:57:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Williams Subject: vga vs VESA with gnuplot To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: p3Zc+Ph+J5XIxumVPJRotA== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.3.4 SunOS 5.7 sun4u sparc Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I'm using the djgpp port of gnuplot---it's very nice. The readme.dj2 doc says that two options (among others) for the GRX20DRV environment variable (used by the GRX-2.3 graphix library) are SET GRX20DRV=VESA gw gh nc SET GRX20DRV=stdvga gw gh nc OTOH the `set terminal' command in gnuplot accepts `svga' but does not recognize `VESA'. Can someone explain to me the difference between stdvga and VESA (I know what the acronyms stand for :), and when one would be preferred over the other? The only video driver information I can provide is what I see at boot time: CL-GD6420 VGA BIOS Version 1.01 alpha4 Copyright 1992 Cirrus Logic, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 1987-1990 Quadtel Corp. All Rights Reserved. 6420 04/22/92 CLVESA, Cirrus Logic VGA VESA BIOS Extension Version 1.00 Copyright (C) Cirrus Logic Inc., 1992. All Rights Reserved. Cirrus VGE VESA VBE successfully installed. (2,010 bytes) TIA---jtw