home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!censor!isgtec!ted
- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Do Trident drivers work with ATI?
- Message-ID: <3926@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 05:03:03 GMT
- References: <C0C5F8.KsD@apollo.hp.com>
- Sender: news@isgtec.com
- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
- Lines: 31
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
-
- Carl Davidson (ced@APOLLO.HP.COM) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- I had some problems after installing the 1024x768 drivers for use with
- a 1 Meg ATI Wonder XL. Not the same problems (short flashing
- horizontal lines on the desktop, loss of cursor when returning to
- full-screen Windows from the desktop), but in the same places.
-
- The fix, in my case, was to go back to the original BVHVSVGA.DLL (from
- the SP) and SVGADATA.PMI (from Joel Armengaud's ati256c2.zip) for the
- desktop, and to the full-screen Windows 3.0 driver from ATI, while
- continuing to use the new IBMDEV32.DLL and IBMVGA32.DLL and the Trident
- seamless Windows driver from tri32new.zip.
-
- After that, everything worked just fine (in 1024x768x256). I haven't
- tried it at 800x600, but it's worth a try.
- --
- Ted Richards ted@isgtec.com [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
- ISG Technologies Inc. 6509 Airport Rd., Mississauga Ont. Canada L4V 1S7
-