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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!uchinews!machine!chinet!prb
- From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
- Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
- Message-ID: <Bt53oy.96n@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com> <1992Aug12.202345.7212@wam.umd.edu> <1992Aug14.083828.18273@jet.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:07:45 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Aug14.083828.18273@jet.uk> cpg@jet.uk (Dr Chris P Gatcombe) writes:
- >In <1992Aug12.202345.7212@wam.umd.edu> qian@wam.umd.edu (Yong Qian) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com> ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com writes:
- >>>
- >>>I do not agree. I have a 1MB card (Trident) and still have the same problem.
- >>>I can use Trident W3.0 disk and install 800X600 256 color driver. But
- >>>if I use any 256 color from windows 3.1 setup I get the blank screen.
- >>>
- >>>-----------------------------
- >
- >>Yeh. I can only get 800x600 16 colors from my 1MB Trident 8900C. 256 colors
- >>and 1024x768 mode make the screen blank and hang.
- >
- >I have a 486 with the Trident 8900c (1Mb), and I have installed _ALL_
- >the trident drivers (and the standard windows vga drivers) at one time
- >or another while benchmarking my system, and I have _NEVER_ had any
- >problems :-). My monitor is an AOC 14" interlaced type. I currently
- >have installed a beta version of the trident 800x600x256 driver (I only
- >put it on two nights ago, so it is early days - but it seems fine).
- >I think that the 800x600x256 driver is the best compromise for my
- >system, as 1024x768x256 is too small to use for any length of time,
- >especially on my monitor. (I like 256 colour bitmaps for windows
- >wallpaper!)
- >
-
- I have that card on machines both at home and at work, one running
- 640x480x256, the other 800x600x256, both with the beta WIN3.1 drivers
- downloaded from Trident's bbs. Both are working mostly fine, although I
- do get an annoying little bug where if I minimize PageMaker and then
- maximize it, it comes up in wierd colors. Otherwise, no probs. These are
- 386s, by the way.
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