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- From: lrj@cs.cornell.edu (Lew Jansen)
- Subject: Re: New TSENG LABS drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.202445.5511@cs.cornell.edu>
- Keywords: NEW TSENG LABS DRIVERS
- Organization: Lab of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University
- References: <1992Sep9.093133.4781@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <BuBLFp.7pM@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <hatton.716151111@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:24:45 GMT
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- hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- > [The "new" ET4k drivers] are OS/2 1.3 version drivers patched to work with
- >OS/2 2.0, and thus are not an improvement on the Orchid beta drivers
- >which *are* being made specifically for OS/2 2.0.
-
- Whether they're old or new, on my machine they are a DEFINITE
- improvement. I'm one of those lucky people whose "generic" Tseng
- SVGA board does some funky things when using either of the Orchid
- beta releases.
-
- The Orchid 800x600 (16 color) driver never did anything but hang my
- machine. The 800x600 (256 color) _would_ sort of work; I'd get a text
- screen full of funky blue and green blocks. Running the vmode program
- from the startup folder would give me my desktop. Of course, if I
- switched to a full-screen OS/2 or DOS window, I couldn't get back to
- the desktop. I finally had to give up on them.
-
- However, the 800x600 "new" (old) 60Hz driver seems to be working
- fine so far. I can pop in and out of full-screen DOS or OS/2 windows,
- it doesn't splatter my cursor across half the window, and it seems to
- be faster than the stock 640 (16 color) driver. I'm quite happy
- with it.
-
- So, they ARE an improvement for some people.
-
- --
- -- Lew Jansen, N2KNV lrj@helios.tn.cornell.edu
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