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From: hv@funic.funet.fi (Harri Valkama - Uwasa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: sv800.arc on cica.cica.indiana.edu
Message-ID: <1990Jun18.202431.973@funic.funet.fi>
Date: 18 Jun 90 20:24:31 GMT
References: <1011@peyote.cactus.org> <100557@tiger.oxy.edu>
Reply-To: hv@funic.UUCP (Harri Valkama - Uwasa)
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
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In article <100557@tiger.oxy.edu> traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger) writes:
>
>In article <1011@peyote.cactus.org> woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
>|>It is important that the mode number be specified in the
>|>[display] section in the variable mode800x600x4.  Another important
>|>fact is that the mode MUST be decimal.  I originally set it up
>|>using hex and it crashed.  The driver may then be copied onto
>|>vga.drv in the ~windows/system subdirectory (after a backup is made :-)
>|>of course).  All should be fine after that.

Yes. Thanks for that DECIMAL info. I am happy to announce that it helped.
A lot. So much that this generic driver now works with my Trident chipset
graphics card. Well, now that we only could get that generic 1024x768...


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