On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:25, Bruno Prior wrote: > For some reason, this guy says the Vesa driver doesn't work for him. > He hasn't provided enough info to be able to figure out what's going > on, and probably won't now. Could very likely be user error (I > suspect it may be configuration of his monitor rather than his card > that is failing), but we will probably never know now
One thing which has seriously peeved me is that some of the newer cards come with a single VESA graphic mode, 800x600xI-think-24 at 60Hz, and if this doesn't suit your display (e.g. you have an inflexible 1024x768 flatscreen), tough bikkies. There are no combinations which work, you *must* have a native driver of some sort. Hurrah for the nv driver, for example, and hurrah for the crew who did/are doing a GPLed driver for their nForce LAN card. On similar lines, I polled XGI yesterday WRT data for building an Open driver for their new video cards. If they can bring themselves to do that, they'll get more of a leg-up in the market than they anticipated. Each manufacturer that does this is one we can use as a wedge against the others to worry them into keeping up with the pack. Cheers; Leon
