From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Vesa is a pain help please
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:47:11 -0400
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AndrewJ wrote:

> In VBE 2+
> it was no longer required by the specification to continue using fixed mode
> numbers for various modes, so in theory mode 0x0117 might not even be
> 1024x768x16bpp on your system (although I've yet to hear about a card that
> didn't retain all the old VBE 1.x mode numbers).

My ATI-128 card doesn't.  It doesn't even have any 24-bit modes at all (only 32).

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)