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Subject: Detecting display type (in assembler)
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Date: 12 Aug 90 19:03:29 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System
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I'm looking for a clean, safe way to determine what kind of display is being
used on a PC or PS/2 type machine.  ie: I want to know if there is either no
display adapter, or monochrome, or cga, ega, vga colour, vga paperwhite, mcga,
pga.  I don't care which brand of card it is... I'm not worrying about whether
the Vga chip set is Tseng or CHIPS, or ...    I'm trying to do this in
assembler.  Any ideas out there?
 
thanks in advance
 
 
     Reid M. Pinchback