From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   Ryan, are you using an XGA card or XGA-NI [XGA-2]?   
      
   "standard 16-bit color palette load method"   
      
   For which "standard"? VGA? XGA?   
      
   "If I try to use the one listed 65536 color mode the screen redraws to   
   long and distorted, the colors are very dark so no luck there."   
      
   I assume the 640x480x 64k palette bypass mode [aka direct color mode]?   
      
   Ryan Alswede wrote:   
   > I tried to change the driver to use the standard 16-bit color palette load   
   method but it just blue screens.   
   >   
   > Also tried pairing the xga2.sys with the framebuf.dll which is use in a lot   
   of virtual machines as the video driver.   It sees all the 256 color modes and   
   one 65536 color mode.  If I try to use the one listed 65536 color mode the   
   screen redraws to long    
   and distorted, the colors are very dark so no luck there.   
   >   
   > Looking in the leaked 2000 SP1 retail build source code the only reference   
   left in the source to xga is this one comment:   
   > *... unless the display driver is xga.drv,   
   >   *    because XGA cards aren't really VGA compatible   
   >   
   > Yes looks to be true so far.   
   >   
      
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