home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!bbrown
- From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
- Subject: Re: Western Digital's WD90C30 and WD90C31 for VGA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.044700.29357@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <1993Jan19.152109.29542@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1993Jan19.155026.14839@cs.unca.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:47:00 GMT
- Lines: 22
-
- boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd) writes:
-
- >>> the same chip. Depends on Hardware implementation and software (drivers).
- >>> The Speedstar 24X comes with monitor model specific drivers.
-
- >My Speedstar 24X didn't come with monitor model specific drivers! It
- >came with a (DOS only) program, 24xmode, which allows you to select
- >the behavior for the various video modes. You usually set them by
- >selecting a particular monitor from the list, but you can also set
- >them (refresh rate, sync polarities) for each mode the card supports.
- >Nice. But the program must be run each time you boot, so if you aren't
- >using DOS, it is useless.
-
- What you say is true about 24XMODE, but there are DIP swtiches on
- the board that let you specify which refresh rate is used with
- which mode. I think it defaults to these settings if 24XMODE
- hasn't been run (which would be the case when not using DOS.
-
- ------------
- Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
- Intergraph Corporation
- bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com Procol Harum
-