VGA arbitration: API proposal
Egbert Eich
eich at suse.de
Tue Mar 8 02:42:47 PST 2005
Jon Smirl writes:
> >
> > I don't know where you got these from. But the first set is not
> > documented in any data book that I know of.
> > Therefore I assume they are not decoded by these chips.
>
> Older VGA cards used to have jumpers on them for primary or secondary
> devices. This allowed two VGA cards in one machine on ISA.
Hm, I don't think any of mine does - and I've got a whole pile of them.
So I don't think this is an industry standard.
It is a feature of some early cards to support multi head on ISA.
Cheers,
Egbert.
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