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- From: sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: XGA-2 questions, comments
- Message-ID: <UezLi4y00iUzM1U5Ru@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 10:41:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.UezLi4y00iUzM1U5Ru
- Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware: 8-Nov-92 Re: XGA-2
- questions, comments by gt6493c FLUHR,ERIC J@pri
- > So the 8515 works pretty well with the card?
- > Did you need to buy a special adapter for it? I thought I read in the
- > announcement that 85xx monitors needed an adapter.
- > I have an 8515 with a model 70-121 that I was considering an XGA-2 card
- > for.
- > Does it speed up OS/2 overall (I mean, all video writes)? Right now
- > I love OS/2, except for the video. It takes a lot of time with screen
- > draws when I have several windows open at once.
- > How did you install the device drivers for OS/2 for it? Doesn't the
- > service pack come with them?
-
- No adapters needed at all. The 8515 works wonderfully with XGA-2. I
- was hesitant about the fact that it only works in 1024x768x256
- interlaced, I thought there was going to be a lot of flicker. I can
- barely see any flicker at all, usually none at all, and only on things
- that would obviously be bad flicker things (every other row kind of
- things)
-
- It sped up my OS/2 video IMMENSELY!! We're talking 4-5x speedup. My
- windowed sessions run about as fast as my full screen ones used to run.
- My full screen sessions scroll too fast to read. I had already
- installed the service pak, so what I did was not use the "Device
- Drivers" disk that came with the card, since it didn't have any OS/2
- information. I used selective install to tell OS/2 that I have XGA as
- my primary display. Then, it asked for disks 6-15 of the original
- disks, and the first Display Driver disk of the service pak. Then,
- everything went fine. The stuff that was a bitch was the reference
- disk B.S. that I had to go through.
-
- Steve
-
-
- "Now it's over I'm dead and I havn't done anything that I want -- or I'm
- still alive and there's nothing I want to do." -They Might Be Giants
-