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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder and OS/2 2.1 beta
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.035541.16738@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 03:55:41 GMT
- References: <19930102094650.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <19930102094650.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
- >I tried the ATI 640x480x256 drivers that came with OS/2 2.1 beta. They
- >almost work, but I get "sparkles", or colored dots on the screen. The
- >number of dots increases steadily as I use the system. I had a similar
- >problem with the 256c drivers that ATI released a while back. Otherwise,
- >the speed was okay except that DOS/OS2 Window scrolling was pretty slow.
- >Anyone have these working with a "generic" ATI VGA Wonder 512K? If so,
- >what message does yours give at boot time? I get:
- > VGA 1024, BIOS V5-1.00
- >Maybe I could upgrade the video BIOS?
-
- Just a wild guess, but is your AT bus set to operate at 8 MHz?
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