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Re: S3, ARK patch for WHITE BORDER



Didnt work on my ARK card. I did, however, use univbe Pro 5.1a registered.


On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Christopher Oicles wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have written a BIOS patch for S3-based cards which sets the
> overscan color to ffh (instead of 0) whenever a VESA mode change
> occurs.  This should get rid of that annoying white border when
> using the VESA 2.0 display.  This is a 1k TSR.
> 
> LOAD IT AFTER YOU LOAD THE VESA 2.0 EXTENSIONS (it might not
> work otherwise).
> 
> I have also placed on the FTP site a FREEWARE VESA 2.0 extension
> for S3 cards written by Dietmar Meschede.  This seems to work as
> well as UniVBE in Executor -- and it's FREE!
> 
> Get these at: ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/coicles/programs/
>   S3os.exe      -- The overscan patch TSR
>   S3os.txt      -- A readme file for this patch.
>   S3vbe301.zip  -- VBE 2.0 extensions from Dietmar Meschede
> 
> If you have questions or comments, please email me at
> coicles@best.com
> 
> This patch also works with ARK logic based cards.  Please let
> me know if you try this on another chipset and it works.
> 
> I am still uncertain whether ffh is the correct overscan color
> -- it seems to work (it gets rid of the border, but if this
> should be another value, PLEASE let me know!
> 
> -Christopher Oicles
> 


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