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- From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
- Subject: Re: new ATI Ultra drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.192321.16259@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <BzCznu.6B8@world.std.com> <78571@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:23:21 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Drury) writes:
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- >In <BzCznu.6B8@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
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- >>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
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- >how is that? 8514 is 1024x768x256. how is your text smaller with the
- >same resolution?
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- This is becasue it displays VGA icons rather than 8514/a ones...
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- >>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.
-
- Wrong! 8514 has never been seamless (yet..)
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- James Robie Skinner | Jodrey School of Computer Science James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca | Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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