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- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: SVGA drivers for SpeedStar card????
- Message-ID: <BttGKx.C55@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 21:48:28 GMT
- References: <moore.715028279@pv34ae.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
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- In article <moore.715028279@pv34ae.vincent.iastate.edu> moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore) writes:
- >
- >I'm looking for some SVGA drivers for my Diamonds Speedstar card and
- >windows 3.1. I have used several of the TSENG 4000 drivers but they do
- >NOT fully support 3.1 features. The only video drivers that I've found
- >to support 3.1 fully have been the drivers that come with windows, but
- >these are only 16 color drivers and there isn't a 1024x768 driver with
- >them.
- >
- >What I mean when I say "don't fully supoort 3.1" is this. In 3.1 you
- >can use CTRL-ALT-DEL to abort a hanging app. If I press C-A-DEL when
- >using the plain VGA drivers this functions normally. If I use the
- >ET4000 win drivers or a speedstar driver, the system hangs when I press
- >C-A-DEL, it doesn't even reboot.
- >
- >The other feature is ALT-TABBING from a full screen DOS app. This works
- >using VGA, but not using anything else.
- >
- >Does anyone know of some SVGA drivers that will allow 256 colors,
- >hi-res, and function properly under 3.1?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Brian
- >
- >--
- > ________________________________________________________________________
- > / / /
- > / Brian J. Moore / moore@iastate.edu /
- >/__________________________________/____________________________________/
-
- Contact Diamond for the 3.1 drivers. I did so and got a disk with the
- new drivers. All the features you mention above work fine including
- Mouse in a DOS Window and scalable fonts in a DOS Window. I have used
- both the normal Speedstar drivers and Turbo Window drivers. The only
- feature I have not got to work is VGA in a Window but that is of little
- concern to me.
-
- Laurence Chiu
-