High Screenresolutions

[High screenresolutions]

I've been searching around for my OS, just to give it a nice
displayresolution. Problem is that I mostly get old ways of how people
used to switch to monochrome or 640x480 screens. But since I'm not using a
screen/videocard that is older than I am, I'm searching a way to switch to some
high screenresolutions like 1024x768 with 32 bit colours and some new features...

Actually I need some good specifications of how to use them young videocards.
I'm just tired of switching in CGA & EGA videomodes, sure they were nice and entertaining until the 90's arrived...

Any idea where I could find out how to use modern equipment without having to use drivers of other OSes?

[anton]

Video chipset "better" then CGA & EGA & VGA are not standard. That is, you will need to write a seperate driver for all chipsets(S3 , Trident, ...), if you want your OS to run on all computers. Use VESA instead.
Anton

[netster403]

Vesa runs all of the higher video modes, and is fairly fast. but never as fast as drivers that talk directly to the card.

[anton]

Then read Linux src.
Anton

[greg]

You mean xfree86 which is at www.xfree86.org.