VESA
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The VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) is an organization dedicated to develop video standards.
VESA VBE (Video BIOS Extension) is a graphic standard that is supported by almost every recent graphic chipset (since the early 90s). There were different versions:
- 1.2 and below are now basically irrelevant (though the newer standards are backwards compatible)
- 2.0 is the most widespred version of the VBE standard today.
- 3.0 was the last and most sophisticated standard (released in 1998).
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VBE 3.0 supporting chipsets
The german Wikipedia says that every modern chipset supports VBE 3.0, but we're still not entirely sure.
You can help to complete this list by testing your graphics card! Startup the GRUB console and enter 'vbeprobe'. GRUB then outputs the supported VBE version (i.e. "VBE 3.0") and all video modes supported by your Video BIOS.
We know so far that the following chipsets do support VBE 3.0:
- 3dfx Voodoo3
- ATI Radeon x800
- Intel Extreme Graphics 2
- Matrox MGA-G200 (via BIOS update)
- Matrox MGA-G400 (via BIOS update)
- Matrox MGA-G550 (via BIOS update)
- nVidia Riva TNT
- nVidia Riva TNT 2
- nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200
- nVidia GeForce4 MX 440
- nVidia GeForce FX 530
- nVidia GeForce FX 5700
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VBE 2.0 supporting chipsets
- ATI Radeon 9000 (all versions)
- ATI Radeon 9200 SE
- ATI Radeon 9600 (all versions)
- ATI Rage 128
- "Bochs 2.2.6"
- Matrox MGA-G200
- Matrox MGA-G400
- Neomagic NM2200 (MagicMedia256AV)
- S3 Savage3D
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