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Article #6450MODIFYING VGA cards for PCs
From: Geoff Thomas
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:26
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:26
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A few questions about modifying VGA cards: 1) How can I cram 2 VGA cards into a PC, and have them independently addressable? Because of the way DOS handles it's video address space, only one card can reside in the video address space, but what if, on a 3/486 the other card could be given a different address space that doesn't clash with the first, and could be addressed via protected mode on the 3/486. 2) Any ideas on how to give the VGA card a flat video memory, rather than a paged one? 3) Lastly, is it possible to speed up writes to the video address space? Currently its quite slow, and I want to speed it up. Any thanks much appreciated. Geoff Thomas.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!cosc.canterbury.ac.nz!geoffrey Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: MODIFYING VGA cards for PCs Message-ID: <1992Sep11.202617.782@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> From: geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas) Date: 11 Sep 92 20:26:16 +1200 Distribution: world Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand Nntp-Posting-Host: whio.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Lines: 22