Detecting display type (in assembler)

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From: NEASE
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 1990 19:03

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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

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