vidmaster

VESA is the Video Electronics Standards Association. They are industry-led body that agrees on all aspects of video standardisation from the resolution modes of computers, to the size and shape of monitors.

Implementations of VESA standards into video graphics chipsets form the Video BIOS Extensions or VBE. Drivers for such video cards are available for both Windows and Linux.

Its an interesting specification, and is in versiion 3 at present. Before the VESA standard, video card compatibility was a scary monster for programmers and users. Still though, slight deviations and re-interpretations of VBE cause a minor issues even today.

What I am trying to establish is a body of research on what video chipset implementations exhibit the anomaly I mentioned, namely the 832 pixel scan-width on an 800X600 resolution. Incidently the pixel height according to the anomally is 624 pixels instead of 600.

Apologies for the banter shown earlier in this thread. It turned out that the angry poster was getting increasingly detached from the thread topic and no amount of intelligent beckoning seemed suficient to reel him back. He has been reported for his behaviour.