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- From: gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Drury)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: new ATI Ultra drivers
- Message-ID: <78571@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:17:36 GMT
- References: <BzCznu.6B8@world.std.com>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 35
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- In <BzCznu.6B8@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
-
- >I installed the recent ATI Ultra that I had taken from the OS/2
- >Shareware BBS, which claimed to have just got it from ATI. I assume
- >this is the same. This is for OS/2 2.0 GA release. You first
- >setup OS/2 for VGA, not 8514, and then run a short install program
- >that installs drivers and alters config.sys, also allowing you to
- >select resolutions up to 1024x768. I chose 1024x768 because it allows
- >me to get even tinier text than the 8514 mode. So now there is a little
- >more room on my desktop. It doesn't seem to be any faster or better in
-
- how is that? 8514 is 1024x768x256. how is your text smaller with the
- same resolution?
-
- >I installed the ATI driver because I though it would give me
- >seamless windows. It didn't. If it should have, then someone please
- >let me know. My full-screen win/os-2 drivers had to be reset again
- >for 8514 because after the ATI install it had been set to VGA.
-
- 8514 under GA will give you seamless windoz, after the service pack,
- however, that went away.
-
- >Summary: If you have a big screen and want all your text and icons to
- >get a little smaller (more/smaller stuff on your screen), then use
- >the new ATI drivers--but they're nothing to write home about.
-
- ATI is nothing to write home about. ATI and Exxon must have attended
- the same public relations school. i am happy with 8514 but i probably
- could have gotten that cheaper than having to buy the ATI card. I
- was actually expecting that ATI would write drivers for os/2, so I
- could get 8514 resolution but at an accelerated pace. guess i was
- wrong...
-
- -tim
-
-