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- From: mike@mustang.uucp (Mike Hoffos)
- Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.150920.1103@mustang.uucp>
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- References: <1992Jul18.205156.4997@mustang.uucp> <1992Jul20.174848.7662@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:09:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.174848.7662@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul18.205156.4997@mustang.uucp> mike@mustang.uucp (Mike Hoffos) writes:
- >>Under MS-DOS 5.0, I frequently used gif viewers that allowed me to use
- >>the 800x600x256 mode that the VGA portion of the ATI Graphics Ultra offers.
- >>
- >>No matter what I do though, OS/2 just doesn't like to let the same
- >>programs in a DOS full-screen session go into the mode. When they try
- >>to enter 800x600x256, all that happens is that the screen stays in text
- >>mode, but the colors get all funny. When you give the keystroke that
- >>would get you out of the picture viewing mode, the screen corrects itself.
- >
- >Did you install the VSVGA.SYS driver into CONFIG.SYS? I thought svga
- >on does that automatically, but it might not have. Go into CONFIG.SYS
- >and be sure that the reference to VVGA.SYS isn't there (or is
- >commented off) and that VSVGA.SYS is there.
- >
- >--
- > |) David Charlap "I don't even represent myself
- > /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
- > ((|,)
- > ~|~ Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
-
- Yep, I did do svga on; it did nothing. And my config.sys does have
- the vsvga.sys there. My question still stands; does anyone with an
- Ultra get 800x600x256 in a DOS full-screen session if a program tries to
- fiddle the VGA portion into the mode?
-
- Mike Hoffos
-
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