video

[garfield]

I'm interested in how PC video system works. I know quite a bit about it, for example, bit planes, frame buffers on VGA.

But how does SVGA, XVGA work?

The size of a single screen at 1024x768 is more than 1MB. This is beyond the size of the video frame buffer.

And is there any hardware/software standards governing the manufacturering of video cards?

Thanks,

[Paul Komski]

From the "PCGuide"
Monitors (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/crt/index.htm)
Video Cards (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/video/index.htm)

From "HowStuffWorks"
How Computer Monitors Work (http://www.howstuffworks.com/monitor.htm)
How Graphics Cards Work (http://www.howstuffworks.com/graphics-card.htm)

[garfield]

thank you,