<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ah, thanks for the clarification. You're right about what I was thinking of. That's the trouble with having been around "back then". :)<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Although I did know that VESA was/is also an association, I didn't know of anything they had done since the VESA LocalBus days, especially not that all-important mounting hole spacing on the back of LCD's. Being able to flip resolutions with generic (VESA) "commands"/register-pokes/whatever is a great idea.<br>
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<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 October 2013 09:36, Adam Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net" target="_blank">athompso@athompso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On <a href="tel:13-10-07%2010" value="+13100710" target="_blank">13-10-07 10</a>:08 PM, Hartmut W Sager
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">VESA???
I think VESA is from the <a href="tel:80386%2F80486" value="+18038680486" target="_blank">80386/80486</a> era, and that even
Pentium 1 (desktop) computers started adopting the PCI bus for
several reasons, including the replacement of the
short-sighted VESA bus. So, a Pentium 3 should heavily
post-date VESA.
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Yes and no.<br>
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You're thinking of the VESA LocalBus slot, which was short-sighted
only in the sense that it was designed by a bunch of video card
mfgrs to make their products look good - it did exactly what it was
supposed to, and it was cheap enough that m/b mfgrs (mostly) just
implemented it without putting up a fight.<br>
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However, VESA, the association, continues to define standards for
video-related things today. Some of the most important bits are the
spacing of the mounting holes on the back of LCDs (yes, seriously),
and a common definition of how to set video cards into a certain
resolution with a linear, non-accelerated, frame buffer mapped to a
certain address space... this latter piece is what the X "VESA"
driver supports, a lowest-common-denominator mode so that you can at
least set the resolution correctly on pretty much any video card
today.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-Adam<br>
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