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How to detect video card type

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From: Philip McNab
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
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I have a unbranded laptop PC (which I *think* is identical to a Sanyo
NB386), supplied with minimal documentation.  I want to find out what
sort of video card it has, so that I can play with different text modes
for use with the Textwin replacement for KA9Q NOS.

The only utility I have is an old version of PC tools, which tells me 
only that the card is a 'VGA', but I thnk I need to know what make it 
is to figure out more about the non-standard text modes (e.g 80X50, 
132*43)

Does anyone know of either

a) a shareware/freeeware/PD utility that does this sort of 
   identification work

or

b) the BIOS functions/memory addresses that I could use to determine
   this?  I'm a reasonably skilled C programmer, with Turbo C v2.

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/ Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /
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From: Philip McNab <philip@siberia.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1995/11/21
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