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From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder question
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Date: 26 Oct 89 16:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!beaucham    Oct 26 11:49:00 1989


After talking to an ATI consultant (yes, they do answer early in the morning),
I was able to make VSETUP select multisync for the Princeton MAX-15.  I was
disappointed to find out, however, that this version of the ATI VGA Wonder,
which I acquired from the mailorder firm FastMicro, does not autoswitch.  
Apparently there is an OEM version (e.g., available from TriStar) which does
not have the built-in mouse interface but which does autoswitch.  Therefore,
unless I always stick to the same graphics standard, I must preface graphics
programs with commands like
				C> vconfig h720  or C> vconfig vga color

I found that 'vconfig vga mono'  gave by far the best looking characters.

As for the diagnostics SETUP program, this seems to be poorly documented --
my IBM manual scarsely mentions what it is supposed to do.  The ATI consultant
said that since I had selected Hercules mode, the IBM firmware automatically
concluded that the ATI was mono.  However, after selecting multisync vga color
as the default mode and making sure the mother board switch was set to color,
SETUP still refused to acknowledge the possibility of color, and it was 
impossible to select EGA (as ATI's manual says you should).  But this 
seems to be a moot point, as the Wonder's color mapping to grey scale seems to 
work o.k. anyway.

	beaucham@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu