Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > > Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work. > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39 > > > Are you so sure? > > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-19.html: > > First sentence: *The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver supports > all standard VGA and VESA modes* Wow, you guys are now mixing up *three* things! Like I said, one thing is the vesa standard, and the other is a linux driver called vesafb. These are not one and the same! Now you've added a third thing into the mix - vesa modes. They are modes defined by the standard.
