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- From: cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Cyberman)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Modifying vga cards f
- Message-ID: <gate.4RH1qB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 23:29:38 GMT
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- Geoff Thomas was whineing about 'Modifying vga cards for p',
- on [09-11-92 08:26] to All!
- GT> 1) How can I cram 2 VGA cards into a PC, and have them independently
- GT> addressable? Because of the way DOS handles it's video address space,
- GT> only one card can reside in the video address space, but what if, on a
- GT> 3/486 the other card could be given a different address space that
- GT> doesn't clash with the first, and could be addressed via protected
- GT> mode on the 3/486.
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- You can have 2 VGA cards in place except that one must be
- mono and the other color.
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- GT> 2) Any ideas on how to give the VGA card a flat video memory, rather
- GT> than a paged one?
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- Well sic et non. Local bus provides the full 32 bit address
- space and the video boards for it do also. They are memory
- mapped (and configurable as such).
-
- GT> 3) Lastly, is it possible to speed up writes to the video address
- GT> space? Currently its quite slow, and I want to speed it up.
-
- you can use the DMA to copy data VERY fast. The nice thing
- about this is thier is no need to worry about memory refresh
- during the DMA xfer just make sure you transfer > =256 bytes
- each time.
-
- My suggestion is you look into local bus. From what I hear the
- writes are 32bit and at full cpu speed. SO you have 4 bytes
- written at 7 cycles each that would give you 18.857mega bytes per
- second write speed at 33mhz. Of course thier would be some VGA
- card limitations to memory access but you can beat the speed!
-
- Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
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