vesa_drv compatibility question

[Adam Jackson]

On 7/22/12 5:38 AM, soul wrote:

> "
> SUPPORTED HARDWARE
>         The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards.   There  are
>         some known exceptions, and those should be listed here.
> "
>
> Is there a list of such "known exceptions"? That is, VESA-compatible
> cards which are known NOT to work at all or well enough with this
> driver?

I don't know of such a list.  Possibly one existed when that man page 
was written.

> Secondly, in more general terms, how likely is it to find Laptops
> (especially), or PC/monitor combinations which are NOT
> VESA-compatible?

Right now, the odds of that are close to zero.

In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be 
much closer to one.  The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa 
driver will no longer work.

Why do you ask?

- ajax