From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 17:04:49 -0500
From: Bob Manson manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: VGA Hell * 2 (Stealth 64 & Phantom 64)
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>Oh, and does anyone know, if there exists some really clever program, 
>which could sniff out videocard's configuration (processors, ramdacs, 
>etc.) (Think it would have to have a database of somekind about the
>cards registers, etc...)

Look for vgadoc3.zip on your nearest SIMTEL mirror site. It is a MSDOS
program that will attempt to probe your VGA/SVGA hardware and figure
out what it is, describe various modes available, allow you to
experiment with SVGA BIOS modes, etc. It's getting to be a bit out of
date these days, but it still is quite helpful for many video cards.

A newer (and more accurate) version called "SuperProbe" is in the
Linux/XFree86 distribution, but it requires having Linux installed in
order to run it. If there were enough interest, I would willingly make
a DOS port.

You might also try running the UNIVBE 5.1 installer--it will report
similar sorts of information in the install screen. It's not intended
to be used as a SVGA hardware prober, but it has that side effect :-)
						Bob