Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!mig From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: VESA SVGA Standard Message-ID: <1991Jun18.230112.8767@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 23:01:12 GMT References: <51370017@hpindda.cup.hp.com> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) writes: >tozz@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Bob Tausworthe) writes: > >>Has anybody heard, or had any experience with, the VESA (Video Electronics >>Standards Association) standard for SVGA? Does anybody use it? Have >>they come up with standards for 1024x768x256 yet? > >>Wouldn't it be nice if application programmers wrote their software >>to use this standard and then all the card companies had to do was >>build one VESA driver? Wow! > >Yes, just about all software from here on will be VESA compliant. Older >boards (assuming they can handle the resolution) will have a software bios >extension in the form of a TSR. Newer boards have the VESA bios on chip. >More information can be gathered from VESA, 1330 South Bascom Ave, Suite D, >San Jose, CA 95128-4502. (408) 971-7525 FAX (408) 286-8988 So, which boards are VESA compliant? Which monitors? Does VESA specify 72 Hz refresh at 1024x768? * * * * * * ====================== Meir Green * * * * * * ====================== (Internet) mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu * * * * * * ====================== meir@msb.com mig@asteroids.cs.columbia.edu * * * * * * ====================== (Amateur Radio) N2JPG