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- From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: ATI Ultra advice needed
- Message-ID: <4400@drsrv1.hmi.de>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 08:47:23 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.062045.5642@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Sep2.195447.9658@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
-
- >The ATI driver (which is an ATI driver, not a shareware driver) is
- >only necessary if you want to run the Ultra in 800x600x256 mode. if
- >you want to use the 1024x768x256 mode, just use the IBM 8514/a driver.
- >It works fine.
-
- I understand that the IBM 8514/a driver does not recognize the ATI coprocessor,
- right or wrong? If it does not, shouldn't the ATI driver be distinctively
- faster?
-
- I have ordered now the "ATI driver for OS/2 2.0" that has been advertized
- in the German MC magazine, for about US $ 20. But I confess I am not clear
- I know what I am doing, nor do I trust the dealer who was ready to take
- the order but probably did himself not know what he was doing.
-
- (This is a close repost to an earlier posting for which I did not get any
- response. )
-
- Wolfgang Fritsch
- pfr@psun2.hmi.de
-