Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!matt.ksu.ksu.edu!nan From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) Subject: Re: SUPER VGA or what there is Message-ID: <1991Apr17.192840.5486@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Nntp-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu Organization: Kansas State University References: <7309@munnari.oz.au> <6710003@pollux.svale.hp.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 19:28:40 GMT Lines: 25 dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low) writes: >> My question is are all SUPER VGA boards compatible with >> each other, such that if one manufacturers board fails >> I can plug in another manufacturers board and proceed with >> no problems in the software. >No. VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has a SuperVGA >standard but it is new and incomplete. Right now any SuperVGA >card you buy will be incompatible with any other SuperVGA card. >You basically have to settle on a company and stick with them. >The only good aspect is that many VGA cards use a common chipset >(e.g. Paradise, Tseng or Headland) and are mostly compatible with each >other for that reason. It's true that different cards are not hardware compatible with each other. But I have seen some programs that have VESA SuperVGA autodetect without the use of any device drivers. Fractint is one them, I can put it in Super VGA mode without loading a specific video driver. -- Nan Zou | Bitnet : nan@ksuvm Kansas State University | Internet: nan@math.ksu.edu #include | nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu