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- From: opworld@worldnet.fr (Hello)
- Newsgroups: tcp.support,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:18:54 GMT
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- Dirk Ohme <dohme@cpu3> wrote:
-
- >> Apparently a bug in Microsoft's S3 video card driver causes a
- >> device on COM4 to work incorrectly.
-
- >That's wrong! It's not a bug in the software but a hardware problem with
- >S3-based graphics adapters. On ISA and ISA-like behaving busses the I/O
- >address space is limited to 12 address bits. S3-chips have a I/O port
- >that conflicts with COM4 on such systems, but would not collide to
- >systems with full 16 bit I/O address space like MCA (micro channel
- >architecture).
-
- And not with all S3 card. I have 4 series and 2 // in my computer and
- it work. Just a thing, retailer told me, my S3 with 4Mo can have 16M
- colors in 1200*1024. I still wait for a S3 driver wich support this
- resolution !
- Happy
- New opworld@worldnet.fr
- Year
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