denoted in black) along with modes commonly used, but which may not work on all graphics cards as they are not defined by any standard .

Mode detection

A few tools have been written to detect VBE modes available on a system. They generally work by invoking Function 01h, which is more reliable than assuming a table of extended modes as it's part of the device's self-documentation.
* hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux and in some other Linux distributions.

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