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- Subject: ET4000 in 800x600x256 - Switching between 35/38khz hor freq?
- Message-ID: <54sis-b@massey.ac.nz>
- Reply-To: P.Kay@massey.ac.nz
- Organization: School of Maths & Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:58:29 GMT
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- My SVGA monitor (Philips 1409) only has a fixed number of supported horizontal
- frequencies. I'm drving it with a clone ET4000 SVGA card, with the CSD drivers.
-
- The ET4000 chipset has two modes for 800x600x256 resolution - 35.2 and 37.8khz
- (the default being 37.8).
-
- Unfortunately the default frequency is not supported by the monitor.
-
- Under DOS you can reprogram the ET4000 by giving the "VMODE 35K" command -
- VMODE is a program supplied with the card. This program only does two things!
- it ANDS 0040:0488 with 0xDF and ORS 0040:0489 with 0x40.
-
- These locations are read by the ROM BIOS on the card when 800x600 mode is
- entered.
-
- This does work even in a full screen DOS window under OS/2!
-
- I had hoped to create a small program that I could "call" in my config.sys
- file to set the card to the 35khz frequency - but I can't believe that the
- device driver looks anywhere near the DOS BIOS parameter area.
-
- Now I'm stuck - can anyone help me?
-
- Thanks
-
- Peter Kay (P.Kay@massey.ac.nz)
-
- PS - I can run in 1024x768x256 interlaced mode - but sometimes (not often) the
- flicker is distracting.
-