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Subject: Re: Programmatically probe video chipset
To: moloch16@yahoo.com (Paul Powell)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:54:06 +0000 (GMT)
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> Is there an API or other means to determine what video
> card, namely the chipset, that the user has installed
> on his machine?

On a modern X86 machine use the PCI/AGP bus data. On a PS/2 use the MCA bus
data. On nubus use the nubus probe data. On old style ISA bus PCs done a large
pointy hat and spend several years reading arcane and forbidden scrolls
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