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Remove comment about VESA being obsolete as it is confusing beginners. VESA is a perfectly viable interface for most systems as CSM (which is still shipped with most UEFI-capable PCs) supports it fine. Only note that UEFI uses GOP instead.
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m (Remove comment about VESA being obsolete as it is confusing beginners. VESA is a perfectly viable interface for most systems as CSM (which is still shipped with most UEFI-capable PCs) supports it fine. Only note that UEFI uses GOP instead.)
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Under legacy BIOS you(and canCSM-capable access the video card functions using the standardized VESA/VBE functions. On modernUEFI systems with UEFI (in lack oflegacy BIOS mode), you'll have to use [[GOP]] (Graphics Output Protocol) tocan access the video card infunctions ausing the standardized way. As of 2020 VESA/VBE is considered obsoletefunctions.
 
In UEFI mode, instead, one uses the [[GOP]] (Graphics Output Protocol) to access the video card in a standardized way.
 
== VESA Functions ==
You'll want to look in the VESA VBE docs for these functions:
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