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Hello.
I have taken a short look in the source code and i think it is a fine work.

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In the file "emd167\INC\VESA16.ASM" i found a part with following lines:

But with modern display devices with a VBE 2 and a VBE 3 bios and with booting a poor DOS OS we have to get the VBE modenumbers from the modetable of the VBE bios itself. And we can not be sure if modern cards provide the same resolution of the older modenumbers of the outdated VBE1.x bios, example of 800x600 with 32 bits per pixel. Maybe we have to use another number for to get this resolution.

Note: This problem can only occur, if we boot a pur DOS with a modern display device, but not if we use DOSBox with a DOSBOX modenumber.

Little help for to make it more compatible with modern display devices under a pur DOS:
The first step is to call function 4F00h of the int 10h for to get the VBE SVGA Information in a buffer of 512 bytes. If no error occur, then we can check the byte of the major VBE version number(BUFFER+5). If we found a VBE 2 or 3 bios, then we can get the pointer of the modetable at BUFFER+0E and with the pointer we can get the modenumber in words. The modetable ends with the word of FFFF.

The next step is to call function 4F01h of the int 10h with the modenumber that we have taken from the modetable, for to get the mode specific information of "each?" modenumber in another buffer of 256 bytes. Inside of this second buffer we can found the resolution, how many bits per pixel are used, the length of the scanline (for calculating the address of a screen location) and some more relevant information of the modenumber. On this way we can finally found the modenumber for the resolution that we want to use with calling the function again and again with the next number of the table. (...else terminate with error message if modetable ends.)

More details can be found in the costfree document "vbe3.pdf" in the puplic section of vesa.org (need register/login).

Dirk

Ok. I will try to fix it .

Hello.

Thats nice.

For to show that the problem truly exist, here are some cards with different VBE modenumbers:

Powercolor Radeon 9800 PRO (VBE2 AGPx4 128 MB)
800 x 600 with 24 bpp VBE modenumber 4115
800 x 600 with 32 bpp VBE modenumber 4122

Sapphire Radeon 7950 (VBE3 PCIe_x16 3GB DDR5)
800x600 with 32 bpp VBE modenumber 4122

Dirk

Hello.

It is fixed version. I check bits-per-pixel parameter now. Used 2 numbers of modes only . Thanks .


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