> I'm using VESA..

1?
2?
Bank switching?
LFB?

> well for accessing the vga, I'm directly accessing the video memory, without even going through the bios.
> protected mode doesn't allow direct access to vga..

Sure it does.

> > > Hey
> > > I'm working on coding double buffering for SVGA. I can get it working fine with VGA, but all sorts of problems come up with SVGA buffers (i.e. tiling a small portion of the buffer to vga.) I'm using farmalloc etc., if anyone would like to help I can email you or icq or something you the file (requires a non-protected mode dos compiler, like turbo c++ 3+)
> > > thanks :)

> > Non-protected mode?
> > I would really use protected mode to have access to memory > 1 mb.
> > How are you accessing the back buffer?
> > VESA?