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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!pingshan
- From: pingshan@leland.Stanford.EDU (PINGSHAN WEN)
- Subject: Re: Trident video voodoo! (scary tricks)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.184646.12131@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Jul24.061307.14973@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:46:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.061307.14973@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >
- >This all leaves me highly suspicious of the vsvga.sys and the bvhsvga stuff.
- >When I got Ultima UW running, I thought "great, Ill type SVGA ON, and
- >the setup will be saved, and then UW will work" Big mistake. UW still doesnt
- >run, and now svgadata.pmi is wrecked, and now I've got crap on screen when
- >switching back to the desktop from fullscreen (OS/2 or DOS) sessions.
- >Surprisingly, switching back frmo Windows doesn't leave crud on screen.
- >
- >BTW, I've tried every video patch released for OS/2, with no luck.
- >
- >Anyway, aside from determining the nature of these bugs, this doesn't help
- >me much. Does anyone know how the svgadata.pmi file is defined? Does
- >anyone know about Trident video drivers?
- >
-
- Most of the bugs are due to VSVGA.SYS and BVHSVGA.DLL handling different
- Trident cards, which is not necessarily Trident DISPLAY.DLL's bug.
- Also there is a PATCHTRD.ZOO in ftp-os2 /pub/download which temporaily
- fixes the screen trash problem (before newer VSVGA and BVHSVGA ?).
-