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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!sangam!shakti!saathi.ncst.ernet.in!satam
- From: satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (Kirtikumar G. Satam)
- Subject: VGA resolution help with Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <BzypDx.J0A@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
- Keywords: VGA, TVGA, Windows 3.1
- Sender: news@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (News account)
- Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, India.
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:08:20 GMT
- Lines: 34
-
- Hi! I am not a frequent reader of this newsgroup. So please respond by
- personal e-mails. Also, I am not an hardware expert, so please be
- verbose when you reply.
-
- I have a 386/33 ISA machines (assembled) with a monocrome VGA monitor,
- but with TRIDENT TVGA 512K VGA card.
-
- I run windows 3.1 in standard VGA resolution mode (640x400). Since I
- have this TVGA card, I was wondering if I can get 800x600 resolution
- with 16 colors (they will map to gray as before). So, I downloaded some
- public domain TVGA windows drivers and tried setting to 800x600. The
- screen got streched vertically and uppper and lower portions of the
- screens went out of bounds. Also, I noticed that the horizontal line
- granularity increased. It happend same with Windows 3.1 SVGA driver.
-
- My friend told me that since my monitor was not a (multisync??) monitor,
- the problem is coming. Now, is this the case? What multisync monitors
- have that VGA monitors don't?
-
- Another friend told me that there are special drivers available to get
- SVGA resolution (800x600) using the same scan rate(??) as VGA for TVGA
- cards? Is that so? Where I could get such driver?
-
- Can someone please take pain to explain this whole situation? Or is
- there any article in popular magazine (Byte/PCMag etc.) which explains
- such things?
-
- Thanks. Again, personal e-mails only. The newsfeed here is very bad.
-
- - satam.
- Kirtikumar G. Satam
-
- satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in
- satam@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
-