On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Dondalah wrote:
Would be nice to see the VGA driver use more memory. There are lots of programs that use more than 800x600 screen size. Therefore we need a larger virtual screen than what the VGA driver gives us with 4 bit depth.
We have lots of memory that isn't being used, both on our video card and and in our motherboard RAM.
Even with 8 bit depth, we can use a larger virtual screen than what the driver gives us.
The VGA standard, if it can be called that, simply doesn't support this. You should instead use the vesa driver (if your video BIOS supports it), or, preferably, a driver more specific to your adapter.
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