From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: GRX VESA driver
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:06:01 +0100
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker schrieb:
> 
> Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de> wrote:
> > I experienced a 'bug ?' in GRX 2.3.2 video handling:
> 
> That's not a bug in GRX, it's a bug in your graphics card's VESA
> implementation and/or Windows driver. Sadly, this bug is so common in
> today's cards that it's easy to forget that any card's drivers indeed
> do get it right.
> 
> If GRX is to blame for anything, then for not using a workaround for
> that common bug.
most probably you are right, as I could not reproduce the behaviour om my old
home computer with W95. But I still wonder how Allegro programmers did it to get
around.

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