Re: Determining if onboard VGA is used

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:06:04 +0200, "Maarten Wiltink"
<maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Why don't you ask the user? Perhaps their priorities are different
from yours.

You're assuming that the user would have the faintest clue.
Most people don't.


The predecessor of the machine I'm writing this on had an embedded
graphics chip which was linked to the CPU by an AGP bus. Are you sure
your question is even meaningful?

It's meaningful if he's designing something that needs to accurately
determine the hardware's capabilities and performance so that he can
run the appropriate code for each scenario.
.

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