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- From: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
- Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.161142.22437@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
- References: <1992Jul23.120402.26003@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Jul24.180750.4620@lmt.mn.org> <1992Jul25.171620.24721@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:11:42 GMT
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- >In article <1992Jul24.180750.4620@lmt.mn.org> elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott MIS x 363) writes:
- >> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >> > In article <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >> >>
- >> I've used the GIF2BMP program and have noticed that the skewing effect
- >> you describe occurs on the 8-bit-color BMP files but not on the 4-bit-color
- >> BMP files. I am using the Orchid 0.9 drivers at 1024x768x16 on a generic
- >> ET4000 card; perhaps the number of colors available to the desktop makes
- >> a difference. (I haven't tried it with the 1024x768x256 drivers, so I
- >> can't say for certain, but it's a hypothesis worth testing.)
- >
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- Yes my BMP files seem to be all 8-bit. I've been using the Orchid .9 driver
- in 1024x768x256 and that doesn't make a difference. Perhaps it's just
- buggy Orchid drivers (lord knows there seem to be plenty of other bugs with
- them). I'd get the newer drivers, but those still seem to have problems
- as others have been mentioning here. Guess I'll just wait for the next
- CSD and hope IBM will have some decent ET4000 drivers in there.
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- -edg-
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