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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Problem using 1024x768x256c ATI VGAWONDER driver
- Message-ID: <2913@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 13:31:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.082926.17170@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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- jelson@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Jeremy Elson) writes:
- :
- : I'm running OS/2 on a 386/33 clone with 16MB ram, and an ATI VGAWONDERXL
- : card with 1MB RAM hooked up to a NEC Multisync 4D.
- :
- : I ftp'd the 1024x768x256c driver from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and tried
- : to install it.. made sure SVGA was on, ran the patch program on the
- : driver, booted dos, replaced the display.dll with the patched driver,
- : and rebooted to OS/2.
- :
- : The desktop comes up in the correct mode and looks good EXCEPT -- there
- : is an amazing "flicker" -- there is a flickering "shadow" of all on-screen
- : objects about 2-3 inches to the right of the "real" object. This is not
- : an interlacing flicker (my monitor is non-interlaced anyway) ... it looks
- : like WPS is trying to draw each window, icon, etc. in 2 locations at once!
- :
- : Has anyone had a similar problem or know of a solution?
-
- I had exactly the same problem. My solution was just to run the driver
- WITHOUT running the patch program - just unzip it and use it.
-
- By the way, make sure you get the newest ATI Windows 3.0 drivers (file
- ATIWIN30.ZOO on ftp-os2,nmsu.edu or the ATI BBS). They are dated July
- 16, I think. They solve most of the problems with switching between
- the desktop and WINOS2 full screen sessions. I do seem to still have
- problems after a hard boot, but doing a CTRL-ALT-DEL fixes up the problem.
-
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- Ted Richards ted@isgtec.com [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
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