home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- On this page, you get some general information about your current video.
-
- Active video subsystem: The type of video system you are using that moment.
-
- Inactive video: If one system is a VGA, you can have an inactive board.
-
- Initial video mode: The mode the computer will boot up in. Often set by a
- DIP switch or CMOS setting.
-
- Current video mode: The current text mode.
-
- Current display page: There can be up to 8 pages of text (0 through 7).
- Most often, this will be 0.
-
- Video buffer offset and size: The amount of memory needed to display a page
- of text, and the address into the video
- segment where the page starts.
-
- Active display port: This is the port used to control the video.
-
- CRT mode register: A value used to setup the video controller.
-
- Current palette: Another value used by the controller.
-
- Colors: A block containing each of the 16 possible color values.
-
- Current colors: The colors that the BIOS is currently set to. (INFOPLUS
- usually bypasses the BIOS, so the colors won't be the same
- as what you see on the screen.)
-
- Text rows and columns: The current screen size.
-
- Scan lines/character: How many scan lines make up each character.
-
- Cursor scan lines: Which lines of the above count that are used for the
- cursor.
-
-