Hi, One of the problems with lrmi is that it's x86 only. This is a bit of a problem when it comes to dealing with getting laptop video back on x86 hardware (for instance). So last month I(*) started working on a layer that provided the lrmi API using x86emu. On x86 hardware, programs can carry on using vm86 mode. Elsewhere, they can use x86emu. http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/tmp/vbetool-0.4-bambam.tar.bz2 contains a mostly working "thunk" layer that translates lrmi calls to x86emu ones. It doesn't quite work, though - occasionally different code paths get executed between the x86emu and lrmi cases. We haven't managed to figure out why, yet. If someone's interested in having a hack at it, please feel free. * With the assistence of the wonderful Jonathan McDowell, who pointed out all sorts of stupidities -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org