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- From: joe2@vnet.ibm.com
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 11:44:41 FST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Joel's new ATI VGA Wonder drivers (1.01)
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- In <1992Sep4.171442.7913@unixg.ubc.ca> Thomas Wong writes:
- >Has anyone tried Joel's new ATI drivers, version 1.01, the one where
- >you no longer need the atipat.exe program to patch the drivers for
- >your video card? And has a bunch of fixes. I have been using the older
- >driver (1.0) just fine except for the dots that appears occassionally
- >on the desktop which the new driver fixes. So I tried the new driver
- >but now I get the "twinkle" effects. I went into DOS full screen
- >mode as suggested but still get the "twinkles" when I come back to
- >desktop. Has anyone used it successfully? But I'm back to the old
- >drivers for now. Thanks.
- >
- >Thomas.
- >
- >
-
- I'm sorry to hear that, but that's really a bug in BVHSVGA.DLL.
- Now to set up the video mode, I use VioSetMode, which uses
- the BVHSVGA services. And BVHSVGA uses the SVGADATA.PMI
- file to find out how to initialize the video registers.
- Maybe there is a way to manually patch the .PMI file.
- I will try to investigate on this.The problem is that I have only
- one ATI adapter, and it works just fine on it.
- If there is somebody out there with the same problems *AND*
- a good knowledge of video registers....
-
- -Joel Armengaud
-