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- Short: Your Piccolo can operate on HIGHER frequencies? Use this Patch!
- Type: egs/patches? gfx/egs?
- Uploader: andersen@or1.nat.tu-bs.de (Kai Andersen)
- Author: andersen@or1.nat.tu-bs.de (Kai Andersen)
- Version: 1.0
- Released: 08-Jan-95
-
- At one day I find a strange bug in the EGS-software. While I adjust some new
- screenmodes, I find some situations where the EGS-Tweaker displays a resolution
- which should be totally IMPOSSIBLE with this card. So there was a possibility to
- display a mode higher than 86 MHz or 45MHz with 16 bit? I looked for the responsible
- driver for this restrictions and patched it by hand. And actually the card can display
- up to 90 MHz for <=8 bit and up to 60! MHz for 16 bit. The 24-bit-mode stays at 30 MHz.
-
- I already found this more than one year ago, and reported it to Helfrich at the WOC'93,
- but they ignored this. Now in the EGS 7.1 this restrictions still exists. Perhapst some
- cards don't like higher frequencies?
-
- Sorry for this long time. But I thought that the new software made this patch useless.
- So finally I writed this patch.
-
- I added two monitor-specs to test. Use it if you have a monitor with at least 30-57kHz and
- 45-120Hz for some modes. Copy it to EGS:monitors/specs.
-
- Usage: Simplay call this program in a shell. An installed EGS-system is required, of cause.
- Reboot, then look at the Tweaker. There you should see the higher limits! Now you can
- create new modes with these frequencies.
-
- Warning! : I am not resposible, if you kill your Piccolo card, your monitor or anything else!
- Use this patch at your OWN RISK! I can only report that these path worked with MY
- card since one year! Maybe your card don't like this patch!
-
- Please! : Report me, if this patch works on your card or not!
-
- EMAIL: andersen@or1.nat.tu-bs.de
-