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- From: pmiragli@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Pierluigi Miraglia)
- Subject: Vagaries of SVGA mode - help request
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.180452.2123@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:04:52 GMT
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- Problem: When I run Win3.1 at 800*600*16 with a Ahead VGA 512K, the following
- happens: if I open a DOS application in full screen mode, then upon
- return to a Windows app. (or desktop) the screen starts flickering
- like crazy (it's more like waves across the screen, really) and the
- only thing to do is to restart Windows. This happens both with the
- generic SVGA driver provided by Win3.1 and with the Ahead drivers
- (which are anyway quite mediocre).
- I add that: this doesn't happen if DOS apps. are run in a window.
- Also it doesn't happen if Windows is run in standard mode, even though
- as you know DOS apps. only run full screen there.
-
- Has anybody got an idea of what's going on here, and possibly what to
- do about it?
-
- Second problem (much less urgent): I notice a reduction in the screen
- size going from 640*480 to 800*600: about an inch on the right is cut
- off. (Nothing like that happens in 1024*768, but I don't use that
- because my card is too slow at that resolution). I know of one other
- person with a different card (Trident) having the same problem.
- Is this a normal occurrence?
-
- Thank you very much for any help or info
- --
- Pierluigi Miraglia Miraglia.1@osu.edu
- Dept. of Philosophy, The Ohio State University
- Logic before Frege: "Metalanguage? It's like when you talk about
- football in French" (Intro. to Symbolic Logic anonymous)
-