Re: Determining if onboard VGA is used

John Dough wrote:
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.

Capabilities and performance aren't determined by the connection method. If he wants to know the capabilities, he should test for them, rather than assuming that onboard is crap (It isn't always). Nothing stops manufacturers from making good onboard video that is better than crap PCI-E cards.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
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