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S3, ARK patch for WHITE BORDER



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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