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- From: dregeczi@fraser.sfu.ca (David Joseph Regeczi)
- Subject: Re: Do Trident drivers work with ATI?
- Message-ID: <dregeczi.726200222@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <Dec.26.01.48.47.1992.2154@remus.rutgers.edu> <C0C5F8.KsD@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:17:02 GMT
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- ced@APOLLO.HP.COM (Carl Davidson) writes:
-
- >I downloaded the tri32new.zip archive from hobbes recently, unpacked
- >it, and installed the files according to Steve Withers' revised directions.
- >The installation went smoothly (I did it all by hand) and it came up first
- >try -- even the seamless Windoze support works! Kudos to whoever at
- >Trident wrote this stuff. I was amazed to see drivers from a single vendor
- >that support so many other vendor's cards!
-
- >But, as often happens, there is a fly in the ointment. In this case, the
- >fly is that in 800x600 mode the top 1 1/8" (approximately) of the 8" high
- >screen is repeated at the bottom 1 1/8" (approximately) of the screen such
- >that the top row of icons in the WPS is repeated at the bottom of the screen.
- >This not only occurs in the PM, but also with both seamless *and* full-screen
- >Windoze apps. The 640x480x256 driver works fine.
-
- >Anybody else seen this? Anybody know the fix? I sure would like to be able to
- >use this driver. BTW, my board is the VGA Wonder XL and has 512K of video
- >ram on it. The board works fine running Windows 3.1 over DOS in 800x600 mode
- >and works OK with Joel A.'s driver (but I want seamless Windoze support, so
- >I've not been using it), so I don't think I have a hardware problem.
-
-
- The 800x600x256 drivers are for cards with 1M only at the moment I believe
- so you'll have to upgrade the card or live with 640x480x256 drivers. I
- personally find with my ATI AM24 (basically an XL) that the old, unofficial
- trident drivers worked better. Hope this helps.
-
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