Dieter wrote:
Which I guess leads to: are there systems whose firmware insists on
a resolution higher than 640x480?  What is the proper thing to do if
the firmware insists on a resolution higher than the actual display?

I would hope that such firmware first makes the VESA Video BIOS call to request the capabilities of the video hardware and only uses the higher resolution if it is in the list that the call returns a pointer to.

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JRT
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