Editing VESA BIOS Extensions (section)

===Modes defined by VESA===
Beginning with the VBE 2.0 standard, no new modes will be defined by VESA, and old modes are no longer mandatory. The use of defined modes should be considered deprecated: modern video cards may or may not use these mode numbers (even though most do for backward compatibility), and modern software should not use them.  The correct way for software to discover available display modes is to obtain a list of modes (using "Function 00h - Return VBE Controller Information") and then to check each mode (using "Function 01h: Return VBE Mode Information") until it finds the mode/s it requires.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Graphics modes
! 320×200        !! 640×400       !! 640×480     !! 800×600                !! 1024×768   !! 1280×1024
|-
! 16-color palette
|                ||               ||             || 258 (0102h), 106 (6Ah) || 260 (0104h) || 262 (0106h)
|-
! 256-color palette
|                || 256 (0100h)   || 257 (0101h) || 259 (0103h)            || 261 (0105h) || 263 (0107h)
|-
! 15-bit (5:5:5)
| 269 (010Dh)    ||               || 272 (0110h) || 275 (0113h)            || 278 (0116h) || 281 (0119h)
|-
! 16-bit (5:6:5)
| 270 (010Eh)    ||               || 273 (0111h) || 276 (0114h)            || 279 (0117h) || 282 (011Ah)
|-
! 24-bit (8:8:8)
| 271 (010Fh)    ||               || 274 (0112h) || 277 (0115h)            || 280 (0118h) || 283 (011Bh)
|}

Modes 264–268 are text modes. 264 (0108h) is 80 columns × 60 rows (80×60), 265 (0109h) is 132×25, 266 (010Ah) is 132×43, 267 (010Bh) is 132×50 and 268 (010Ch) is 132×60. 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Text modes
! colspan="2" | Columns
|-
! Rows
! 80   !! 132
|-
! 25
|      || 265 (0109h)
|-
! 43
|      || 266 (010Ah)
|-
! 50
|      || 267 (010Bh)
|-
! 60
| 264 (0108h) || 268 (010Ch) 
|}