Re: IRQ 255?

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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Ian Eure wrote:

>Does anyone know what the advantages/disadvantages of having an irq for a video
>card are?

This depends on video card. S3ViRGE, for example, can notify HSYNC/VSYNC
events with IRQ, feature connector data arriving, LPB buffer emptyness, etc.
So, if you use video card in such way, you should assign IRQ to it.

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