On 3 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There is no SVGA standard, but there are VESA standards. Is there something
> that can be done with these? I remember having proposed something like that
> over a year and a half ago, but this was probably too early on.
>
> Are there any "generic" VESA/VBE drivers out there, for most OSs?
>
> Eric Labergehi
> i strongly recommend this idea as most systems has a VESA driver
> win32,OS/2 and even BeOS and QNX
>
> joe
>
VESA is better than plain VGA of course, but it's quite outdated as well.
It provides the support for higher resolutions and linear framebuffer
addressing, however accelererated 2d+3d would be highly desirable
nowadays, which VESA couldn't provide (there was draft for VESA 2d
acceleration, but vendors don't support it usually, and TSR versions are
commercial and avaliable for just minority of accelerators). I'd rather
stick with Jeffrey's proposal. Also, VESA is a BIOS and calling BIOS from
OS usually considered to be unreliable approach.
Uhus
