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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Technical Data for ET4000 (wanted)
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.100315.4608@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 25 Mar 91 10:03:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.033316.25033@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <5754@pta.oz.au>
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In-Reply-To: fs@pta.oz.au's message of 22 Mar 91 07:45:23 GMT

>"Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards - Second Edition" by
>Richard F. Ferrara, Addison-Wesley, 1990,
>has quite a comprehensive section on the ET4000, as well as most of the other
>common Super VGA cards (ET3000, PVGA1A etc). It also has a FULL description
>of the VGA registers, explaining in reasonable detail what each field does.

Yes, this book is quite well. But the descriptions of the Chipsets are not the
real thing. There are missing IMPORTANT details. If you do programming under
DOS you don't have to know them all, but if you do programming under UNIX you
have to know every register. The best thing is to have the Et4000's databook
along with the examples from Ferraro's book.

- Thomas
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