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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: Trident 8900c full-screen DOS puke-fest!
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
- References: <1992Aug13.194714.27713@regina.cs.uregina.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:51:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.194714.27713@regina.cs.uregina.ca>, skagos@hercules.uregina.ca (panagiotis skagos (187802923)) writes...
- >Hi,
- >
- > I am having problems with my Trident 8900c and full screen DOS
- >sessions. I am using, I believe, the latest 800x600x256 driver for
- >the card and everything works really well, except for full screen
- >DOS sessions. When I switch to a FS-DOS, either by ALT-HOME'ing a
- >window or by creating one, the DOS session has a bunch of text-mode
- >gibberish all-over-the-place. This only happens sometimes ... but
- >once it happens, it will always happen until I reboot. Now, since
- >I don't use DOS all that much (just for my GIF viewer ... because I
- >cannot find a decent OS/2 GIF viewer) it doesn't bother me greatly, but
- >if someone has a solution to the problem, I'd really be greatful to
- >hear about it. Thanks!
- >
-
- Known problem. Just do a MODE CO80 and that'll fix it (or you could
- always Alt-Home it back to a window.) Hopefully Trident will fix
- the drivers. Speaking of which, when are the release drivers due?
-
- Srikanth
-