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From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
Subject: Re: SUPER VGA or what there is
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dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low) writes:

>> My question is  are all SUPER VGA boards compatible with 
>> each other, such that if one manufacturers board fails
>> I can plug in another manufacturers board and proceed with
>> no problems in the software.

>No. VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has a SuperVGA
>standard but it is new and incomplete. Right now any SuperVGA
>card you buy will be incompatible with any other SuperVGA card.
>You basically have to settle on a company and stick with them.
>The only good aspect is that many VGA cards use a common chipset
>(e.g. Paradise, Tseng or Headland) and are mostly compatible with each
>other for that reason.

It's true that different  cards are not  hardware  compatible with each
other. But I have seen some programs that have VESA SuperVGA autodetect
without the use of any device  drivers. Fractint is one them, I can put
it in Super VGA mode without loading a specific video driver.

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