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The Intel® Extreme Graphics controllers support VBE 1.2, 2.0 and 3.0. Both linear and banked framebuffer modes are supported. This allows the use of full color and resolution DOS games and applications.

This also provides driver independent (fall-back) graphics support for other operating systems. For example, Windows XP will use VBE modes for display until the Intel® graphics driver is installed. XFree86* and most Linux* distributions also provide a VESA/VBE driver which is compatible with these graphics controllers.

This applies to:

Intel® 82830M Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) Intel® 82845G Graphics Controller Intel® 82852/82855 Graphics Controller Family Intel® 82865G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)