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- From: jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: problem with supervga.drv on win3.1
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.121739.15205@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 12:17:39 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.200700.25509@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan1.163930.3302@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> <1993Jan6.121325.15111@titan.inmos.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan6.121325.15111@titan.inmos.co.uk>, jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan1.163930.3302@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>, duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall) writes:
- |> |> Boon-Lock Yeo (yeo@thoth.Princeton.EDU) wrote:
- |> |> :
- |> |> : Hi, I tried to run win3.1 using 800x600 16 color mode (setup
- |> |> : with supervga.drv). Everything is fine until I tried to run
- |> |> : msdos-prompt from window. It switches fine to text mode; when I tried
- |> |> : to get back to window, the screen messed up. Even if I tried to
- |> |> : run msdos-prompt in window mode, the screen still messed up.
- |> |> :
- |> |> : I wonder it there is any setup I am missing, or is it the some problem
- |> |> : with the hardware (I have a supervga card 512K ram and a supervga monitor)
- |> |>
- |>
- |> Are you using a Trident board? I have a Trident 8900C SVGA board and I had EXACTLY this
- ^^^^^^^
-
- I should have said, SIMILAR. I couldn't switch from 'normal' windows, to running a DOS box in
- full screen mode, as the screen was completely screwed up. It looked like the monitor was not
- locking on to the video output properly.
-
- |> problem. Trident have produced some Windows 3.1 drivers that don't give this problem.
- |>
- |> In the docs that come with the Trident drivers, they suggest trying the Microsoft driver, and
- |> if you have the switching problem, then use the Trident one.
- |>
- |> The Trident drivers DON'T work with graphics in DOS boxes, unlike the Microsoft driver, but
- |> this doesn't seem a great loss (to me at least) as it is so slow as to be almost unusable.
- |>
- |> Using a Dell 433DE the Microsoft driver works ok.
- |>
- |> The Trident drivers are available by FTP, but I can't remember exactly where.
- |>
- |> --
- |> Jeremy Thorp, INMOS Ltd, | jeremy@inmos.com
- |> 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, | jeremy@inmos.co.uk
- |> Bristol, BS12 4SQ, UK. |
- |> Tel. +44 454 616616 Fax. +44 454 617910
- |> The above is the personal opinion of the author,
- |> and does not necessarily reflect INMOS policy.
-
- --
- Jeremy Thorp, INMOS Ltd, | jeremy@inmos.com
- 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, | jeremy@inmos.co.uk
- Bristol, BS12 4SQ, UK. |
- Tel. +44 454 616616 Fax. +44 454 617910
- The above is the personal opinion of the author,
- and does not necessarily reflect INMOS policy.
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