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From: gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3 and ATI card
Message-ID: <1990May25.183803.2917@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 May 90 18:38:03 GMT
References: <20071@grebyn.com>
Organization: AIR, Stanford Universit
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In article <20071@grebyn.com> ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
>
>Here's what I'm seeing;  maybe somebody else is seeing something
>different.  Windows 3 gives you a standard choice of about 5 monitors,
>EGA, VGA, Hercules...  You go to load the ATI driver at the "other"
>choice, and the first thing you see is a note that 386 enhanced mode
>will not run with this card (and you'll probably get this message
>with any SVGA).  The next thing I see, after going through the entire
>five diskette setup process, is that Windows 3 simply doesn't work with
>the ATI card.  win.com simply goes "poof" and dumps you back out at a
>DOS prompt.  Right now, UNIX and X-11 are starting to look AWFULLY good.
>
>
>Ted Holden
>HTE
I'm not surprised.  I dumped my ATI card for a Video7 1024i card, and
have reaped the benifits already.  I got the new drivers which support
svga, and work in /3 mode, yesterday.  ATI had lousy support for Win/386
when it came out.
-Paul Gyugyi
gyugyi@portia.stanford.edu